Odas buoy OL-234 adrift in 63-57.7N 005-46.2E at 251440Z nov
Norwegian Sea · HYDROLANT 2907/15
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2015-11-28 16:48Z
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 I 360/15 251620Z NOV 15.. Issued 2015-11-25 16:48Z. 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 63.962, 5.770. 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
- 2015-11-25 16:48Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2015-11-28 16:48Z
- authority
- NAVAREA I 360/15 251620Z NOV 15.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA I · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Norwegian Sea
- position
- 63.962, 5.770
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
NORWEGIAN SEA. DNC 21. 1. ODAS BUOY OL-234 ADRIFT IN 63-57.7N 005-46.2E AT 251440Z NOV. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 281648Z NOV 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.
- Off station / missing buoy
- A buoy that is not in its charted position — dragged, damaged, missing or removed.
- 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
6 within 180 nm since 2015 · 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.
- Yellow buoy with 300 meter long cable adrift in vicinity 65-06.50N 006-18.80E at 030830Z sep2023-09-04
- Fishing gear adrift in vicinity 65-18.88N 006-43.50E at 211530Z apr2022-04-21
- Odas buoy adrift in 63-54.4N 006-49.5E at 280719Z nov2015-11-28
- 12 meter long seismic cable with buoy adrift in 66-13N 008-30E at 201830Z oct2015-10-22
- 12 meter long seismic cable with buoy adrift vicinity 66-13N 008-30E at 201830Z oct2015-10-22
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
2 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 16:45Z; 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.