900 meter long cable with yellow floats adrift in 61-35.4N 001-39.4E at 191900Z apr
Norwegian Sea · HYDROLANT 939/16
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2016-04-23 13:37Z
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 515/16 201250Z APR 16.. Issued 2016-04-20 13:37Z. 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 61.590, 1.657. 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
- 2016-04-20 13:37Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2016-04-23 13:37Z
- authority
- WZ 515/16 201250Z APR 16.
- issued by
- WZ
- sea
- Norwegian Sea
- position
- 61.590, 1.657
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
NORWEGIAN SEA. NORTH SEA. DNC 20, DNC 21. 1. 900 METER LONG CABLE WITH YELLOW FLOATS ADRIFT IN 61-35.4N 001-39.4E AT 191900Z APR. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 231337Z APR 16.
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.
- 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
61 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.
- Fishing gear, marked by buoy, abandoned in 60-17.30N 001-58.50E2024-09-30
- Sumburgh head light 59-51.20N 001-16.50W ranged reduced to 12 miles2023-10-13
- Cgoc shetland mf r/t services at collafirth hill 60-32.00N 001-23.50W unreliable2022-10-24
- Cgoc shetland mf r/t services at collafirth hill 60-32.00N 001-23.50W unreliable2022-10-21
- Sub-surface mooring, least depth 38 meters, temporarily established in 62-01.60N 001-26.00E2022-08-08
- Three 70 meter long hoses adrift in vicinity 58-48.00N 001-21.00E at 251831Z jun2022-06-25
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
21 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 00:53Z; 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.