600 meter long tow cable adrift in 51-08.3N 001-36.2E at 182344Z mar
North Sea · HYDROLANT 796/22
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2022-03-22 00:10Z
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 375/22 190007Z MAR 22.. Issued 2022-03-19 00:10Z. 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 51.138, 1.603. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2022-03-19 00:10Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2022-03-22 00:10Z
- authority
- WZ 375/22 190007Z MAR 22.
- issued by
- WZ
- sea
- North Sea
- position
- 51.138, 1.603
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
DOVER STRAIT. ENGLAND. DNC 20. 1. 600 METER LONG TOW CABLE ADRIFT IN 51-08.3N 001-36.2E AT 182344Z MAR. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 220010Z MAR 22.
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.
- Tow / towing
- A vessel towing another vessel, a barge or a structure — slow, hard to manoeuvre, and with a long line between.
- 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 · other warnings
280 within 180 nm since 1997 · 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.
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- All navigational aids inoperative at platform 42/30-ST3 54-04.30N 000-54.80E and platform 43/26-ST2 54-03.0N…2023-01-31
- Fishing gear abandoned in area bound by 50-57.90N 001-09.20E, 50-58.00N 001-12.60E, 50-57.40N 001-12.60E,…2022-11-19
- All navigational aids inoperative at platform 49/27-J 53-02.0N 002-13.1E2021-12-29
- All navigational aids inoperative at platforms: a. 49/27-J 53-02.0N 002-13.1E2021-12-28
- All navigational aids at platforms inoperative2021-12-26
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
23 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 04:14Z; 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.