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412 meter long black pipe adrift vicinity 47-03N 005-00W at 201650Z nov

Bay of Biscay · HYDROLANT 2573/02

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2002-11-25 07:50Z

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) · NAVAREA II 432/02 201748Z NOV 02; MARISARDEGNA 148/02 211440Z NOV 02; NAVAREA V 1493,1499/02 211231Z NOV 02. Issued 2002-11-21 15:43Z. 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
Bay of Biscay. The parsed report position is 47.050, -5.000. 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

Current notices and reporting history in the Bay of Biscay →

issued
2002-11-21 15:43Z
status
Archived notice
authority
NAVAREA II 432/02 201748Z NOV 02; MARISARDEGNA 148/02 211440Z NOV 02; NAVAREA V 1493,1499/02 211231Z NOV 02
NAVAREA
NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
sea
Bay of Biscay
position
47.050, -5.000
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. 412 METER LONG BLACK PIPE ADRIFT VICINITY
   47-03N 005-00W AT 201650Z NOV.
2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 2339/02(53), AID RESTORED.
3. CANCEL HYDROLANT 2544/02(24) AND 2570/02(24).
4. CANCEL THIS MSG 28 NOV.

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.

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Collected reports in this area · other warnings

95 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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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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

21 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 06:33Z; source collection times vary.

Other

Everything the classifier did not place elsewhere. All current other 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.