Debris

20 meter long object adrift in 54-42.80N 001-06.92W

North Sea · HYDROLANT 2501/15

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2015-10-09 14:00Z

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) · WZ 1150/15 061307Z OCT 15.. Issued 2015-10-06 14:00Z. 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: North Sea. The parsed report position is 54.713, -1.115. 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 North Sea →

issued: 2015-10-06 14:00Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2015-10-09 14:00Z
authority: WZ 1150/15 061307Z OCT 15.
issued by: WZ
sea: North Sea
position: 54.713, -1.115
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

NORTH SEA.
ENGLAND-NORTHEAST COAST.
DNC 20.
1. 20 METER LONG OBJECT ADRIFT IN 54-42.80N 001-06.92W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 091400Z OCT 15.

Reading this warning

DNC (Digital Nautical Chart): A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
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.
CANCEL THIS MSG: The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · drifting objects

15 within 180 nm since 2001 · 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.

Buoy, grey, reported adrift in 57-28.80N 000-28.40E2023-06-06
Submerged object in vicinity 55-44.90N 005-19.70W2023-01-24
Submerged object in vicinity 55-45.1N 005-19.0W2022-03-26
Buoy, green, adrift in vicinity 53-52.4N 000-39.5E2018-05-30
Buoy adrift in 56-23.09N 002-15.66E at 092247Z feb2018-02-10
Six meter log adrift in vicinity 53-13.6N 005-29.4W2017-11-02

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

3 drifting objects listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 06:09Z; 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.