Debris

An object is adrift in the Black Sea off Romania near 43-55.10N 030-37.65E as of 25 September, and vessels are asked to keep two miles away.

Black Sea · HYDROLANT 1901/26

What this record establishes

Listed in force

The latest collected record lists this warning as active. This is the status of the notice, not a live observation of conditions at the location.

Source and dates
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-09-25 11:19Z. First collected 2026-09-25 18:17Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-25 21:47Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
Black Sea. The parsed report position is 43.918, 30.628. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Black Sea →

issued
2026-09-25 11:19Z
status
Listed in force
self-cancels
2026-09-28 11:19Z
sea
Black Sea
position
43.918, 30.628
nearest port
Tulcea · 109 nm
source
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-25 18:17Z

Original warning text

BLACK SEA.
ROMANIA.
1. OBJECT ADRIFT IN VICINITY 43-55.10N 030-37.65E
   AT 250923Z SEP. TWO MILE BERTH REQUESTED.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 281119Z SEP 26.

Reading this warning

Adrift
Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
Position (degrees and minutes)
How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
Date-time group (DTG)
A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
Wide berth requested
Keep well clear — or, when a distance is given ("TWO MILE BERTH REQUESTED"), at least that far away.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

All warning terms →

Drift estimate · where it probably is now

estimated
43.900, 30.494 · ±12.9 nm
from report
5.9 nm toward 259° over 0.3 d
current
0.4 kn toward 241°
wind
15 kn from 93° · 3% leeway
method
stepped 1× at the estimated position · as of 2026-09-25 18:50Z

Surface current (HYCOM, U.S. Navy) plus 3% of the wind (MET Norway). An estimate drawn dashed on the map above — not a position, not for navigation or search and rescue.

Conditions at the position · now

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MET Norway · NOAA WaveWatch III · HYCOM · GEBCO 2020 · model data at the centroid, not an observation

Collected reports in this area · drifting objects

13 within 180 nm since 2023 · 11 in the last 12 months · 1 listed in force now

23
25
26

Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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M
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All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.

Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

3 drifting objects listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-25 21:54Z; source collection times vary.

Debris

Logs, buoys, mooring gear and other objects adrift. All current drifting objects →

Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.