A mine is reported at 26-24.58N 056-20.67E in the Strait of Hormuz, Oman; Hydrographic Pacific warning 1586/26 is cancelled.
Persian Gulf · HYDROPAC 1772/26
What this record establishes
Listed in force
The latest collected record lists this warning as active. This is the status of the notice, not a live observation of conditions at the location.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-06-18 21:34Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-10-01 13:47Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Persian Gulf. The parsed report position is 26.410, 56.344. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2026-06-18 21:34Z
- status
- Listed in force
- sea
- Persian Gulf
- position
- 26.410, 56.344
- nearest port
- Bandar Abbas · 45 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
STRAIT OF HORMUZ. OMAN. 1. MINE REPORTED IN 26-24.58N 056-20.67E. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1586/26.
Reading this warning
- Mines and mine danger areas
- Sea mines reported adrift or found, and areas where mines are known or suspected to remain.
- 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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROPAC
- The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
Security advisories for this region
Conditions at the position · now
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MET Norway · NOAA WaveWatch III · HYCOM · GEBCO 2020 · model data at the centroid, not an observation
Collected reports in this area · mine warnings
1 within 180 nm since 2026 · 1 in the last 12 months · 1 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.
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
- M/V cape dao suffered a security incident, disabled and adrift in 26-23.40N 056-34.40EDerelicts · 12.4 nm
- Fish farms established in areas bound by: a. 26-43.84N 056-56.88E, 26-43.80N 056-56.95E, 26-43.74N…Other · 37.7 nm
- Derelict 274 meter M/V adalynn unlit and anchored in 25-36.99N 056-24.85EDerelicts · 47.8 nm
- GPS, GNSS, and AIS interference reported in vicinity of fujairah (25-07.33N 056-20.05E)Nav aids · 77.3 nm
- Anchoring prohibited in area bound by 25-26.59N 055-05.88E, 25-28.17N 055-06.69E, 25-28.32N 055-09.15E,…Other · 87.6 nm
- Lattice beacon 25-38.19N 057-45.86E inoperativeNav aids · 89.6 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
8 mine warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 05:10Z; 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.