Mines

Mine adrift vicinity 55-51.0N 005-43.6W at 141049Z mar

Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland · HYDROLANT 852/01

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2001-03-16 10:40Z

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 617/01 141114Z MAR 01; WZ 616/01 141041Z MAR 01. Issued 2001-03-14 12:49Z. 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
Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland. The parsed report position is 55.850, -5.727. 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 Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland →

issued
2001-03-14 12:49Z
status
Archived notice
authority
WZ 617/01 141114Z MAR 01; WZ 616/01 141041Z MAR 01
issued by
WZ
sea
Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland
position
55.850, -5.727
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. MINE ADRIFT VICINITY 55-51.0N 005-43.6W AT 141049Z MAR.
2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 817/01(37), OPERATIONS COMPLETED.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 21 MAR.

Reading this warning

Mines and mine danger areas
Sea mines reported adrift or found, and areas where mines are known or suspected to remain.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · mine warnings

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

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16

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

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

8 mine warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 21:53Z; source collection times vary.

Mines

Drifting or reported sea mines. Mostly the Black Sea since 2022. All current mine 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.