Four oil drums adrift vicinity 23-25N 060-35E on 06 jul
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 2011/14
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2014-07-11 15:50Z
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) · THOMAS 081038Z JUL 14.. Issued 2014-07-08 15:59Z. 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
- Arabian Sea. The parsed report position is 23.417, 60.583. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2014-07-08 15:59Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2014-07-11 15:50Z
- authority
- THOMAS 081038Z JUL 14.
- issued by
- THOMAS
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 23.417, 60.583
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
NORTHERN ARABIAN SEA. GULF OF OMAN. 1. FOUR OIL DRUMS ADRIFT VICINITY 23-25N 060-35E ON 06 JUL. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 111550Z JUL 14.
Reading this warning
- 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
7 within 180 nm since 2002 · 1 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.
- Naval operations 230200Z to 231300Z aug in area bound by 24-36.00N 061-45.00E, 24-36.00N 063-15.00E,…2026-08-21
- Vessel csd shayyan reported sunk in vicinity 25-03.02N 063-01.37E2023-09-24
- M/V desh vaibhav, on fire in 24-05N 059-35E at 140500Z aug2018-08-14
- Hazardous operation 0400Z to 1200Z daily 12 and 13 apr in area within ten miles of 25-05.9N 062-22.6E…2018-04-10
- Bombing exercises 131200Z to 282359Z feb in area bound by 23-50-00N 062-00-00E, 23-50-00N 062-29-00E,…2009-02-12
- M/V suffered fire and explosion in 22-47N 060-54E2002-07-12
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 01:21Z; 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.