20 meter long metal object adrift vicinity 61-22.2N 001-18.9E at 020845Z feb
Norwegian Sea · HYDROLANT 273/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-02-05 13:00Z
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 180/12 021105Z FEB 12.. Issued 2012-02-02 12:56Z. 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
- Norwegian Sea. The parsed report position is 61.370, 1.315. 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 Norwegian Sea →
- issued
- 2012-02-02 12:56Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2012-02-05 13:00Z
- authority
- WZ 180/12 021105Z FEB 12.
- issued by
- WZ
- sea
- Norwegian Sea
- position
- 61.370, 1.315
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
NORTH SEA. 1. 20 METER LONG METAL OBJECT ADRIFT VICINITY 61-22.2N 001-18.9E AT 020845Z FEB. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 051300Z FEB.
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.
- 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
18 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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 buoy reported, least depth five meters in 60-03.16N 003-59.44W2020-02-21
- Submerged buoy reported, least depth five meters in 60-03.16N 003-59.44W2020-01-10
- Submerged buoy reported, least depth five meters, in 60-03.16N 003-59.44W2019-11-29
- Submerged buoy reported, least depth five meters, in 60-03.16N 003-59.44W2019-10-18
- Yellow buoy and cable adrift in 59-37N 002-46E at 170200Z jul2017-07-17
- Fishing gear adrift in 61-27.0N 002-07.2E at 141500Z apr2017-04-14
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 2026-10-01 17:22Z; 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.