One meter bamboo adrift in vicinity 12-26S 045-27E
Mozambique Channel · HYDROPAC 1124/20
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2020-04-10 13:40Z
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) · AVURNAV LA REUNION 13/20 071332Z APR 20.. Issued 2020-04-07 13:40Z. 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
- Mozambique Channel. The parsed report position is -12.433, 45.450. 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 Mozambique Channel →
- issued
- 2020-04-07 13:40Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2020-04-10 13:40Z
- authority
- AVURNAV LA REUNION 13/20 071332Z APR 20.
- issued by
- AVURNAV LA REUNION
- sea
- Mozambique Channel
- position
- -12.433, 45.450
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL. COMOROS(MAYOTTE). DNC 02. 1. ONE METER BAMBOO ADRIFT IN VICINITY 12-26S 045-27E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 101340Z APR 20.
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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · other warnings
12 within 180 nm since 2001 · 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.
- Ten meter tree adrift in 12-48.61S 044-56.76E2023-11-15
- Concentration fish system adrift in 12-53.32S 045-19.05E2023-04-12
- Fish aggregating device with flashing light in 13-05.61S 045-12.12E2022-08-05
- 12 meter S/V ZAP1, white hull with blue and red stripes, unreported nosy be island (13-20S 048-15E) to…2019-08-14
- Possible men overboard from vessel in 12-20S 044-40E at 202000Z aug2017-08-21
- Six persons overboard from seven meter vessel vicinity mayotte (12-50-35S 045-08-18E)2016-04-18
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 2026-09-27 22:50Z; 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.