40 foot cylindrical tank adrift vicinity 47-07.8N 005-14.5W at 111538Z dec
Celtic Sea · HYDROLANT 2066/07
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2007-12-18 00:00Z
This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · MRCC ETEL 111557Z DEC 07.. Issued 2007-12-11 16:29Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Celtic Sea. The parsed report position is 47.130, -5.242. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- 40 foot cylindrical container adrift in 47-38N 005-12W at 101105Z deccancelled by this notice
- Cylindrical tank adrift in 46-58.6N 004-33.4W at 110837Z deccancelled by this notice
These messages are connected by recorded cancellation references. The links establish relationships between notices; they do not by themselves confirm a single object, a continuous track, or recovery.
- HYDROLANT 2057/072007-12-11 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 2066/07 · this notice2007-12-11 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2007-12-11 16:29Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC ETEL 111557Z DEC 07.
- issued by
- MRCC ETEL
- sea
- Celtic Sea
- position
- 47.130, -5.242
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. 40 FOOT CYLINDRICAL TANK ADRIFT VICINITY 47-07.8N 005-14.5W AT 111538Z DEC. 2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 2049/07, 2057/07. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 18 DEC.
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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROLANT
- The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · drifting objects
95 within 180 nm since 1998 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now
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.
- Submerged fishing net adrift in 48-09.04N 005-29.24W2024-04-29
- Cylindrical yellow special mark buoy adrift in 49-10.74N 005-03.65W2024-04-11
- Six eight meter long objects adrift in 49-44.00N 003-03.00W at 040600Z dec2023-12-04
- Cargo object (airport bridge) adrift in vicinity 48-19.60N 006-03.60W2023-11-10
- Five meter white cubic object adrift in 47-01.58N 004-05.55W2023-10-09
- Six, five meter logs adrift in vicinity 47-44.00N 006-22.00W at 170542Z aug2023-08-17
Month of issue in the collected archive
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
- Special operationsExercises · 97.7 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
2 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 05:10Z; 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.