Possible mine adrift vicinity 56-14.4N 005-49.0W at 311119Z jan
Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland · HYDROLANT 231/03
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2003-02-02 16:20Z
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) · WZ 179/03 311146Z JAN 03. Issued 2003-01-31 14:26Z. 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
- Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland. The parsed report position is 56.240, -5.817. 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
- Cancel HYDROLANT 231/03later cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland →
- issued
- 2003-01-31 14:26Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- WZ 179/03 311146Z JAN 03
- issued by
- WZ
- sea
- Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland
- position
- 56.240, -5.817
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. POSSIBLE MINE ADRIFT VICINITY 56-14.4N 005-49.0W AT 311119Z JAN. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 07 FEB.
Reading this warning
- Mines and mine danger areas
- Sea mines reported adrift or found, and areas where mines are known or suspected to remain.
- 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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · mine warnings
7 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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.
- Possible mine adrift in 56-35.9N 001-56.5W at 101010Z jun2016-06-10
- Possible mine adrift in 56-15.18N 001-49.98W at 080722Z jun2016-06-08
- Possible mine adrift in 56-07.3N 001-54.4W at 220545Z may2003-05-22
- Mine adrift vicinity 55-51.0N 005-43.6W at 141049Z mar2001-03-14
- Unexploded mine reported in 57-42.8N 003-46.8W1999-05-12
- Possible mine reported adrift in 55-00.2N 005-18.4W at 221500Z apr1999-04-22
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
No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.
Worldwide in the collected sources
8 mine warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 08:33Z; source collection times vary.
Mines
Drifting or reported sea mines. Mostly the Black Sea since 2022. All current mine warnings →
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.