A yellow buoy is adrift in the Bay of Bengal off India at 19-22.19 North 085-15.37 East, reported on 27 September.
Bay of Bengal · HYDROPAC 2836/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-10-01 16:15Z
This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-09-30 15:25Z. First collected 2026-10-01 19:02Z; last seen in collection 2026-10-02 02:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Bay of Bengal. The parsed report position is 19.370, 85.256. 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 Bay of Bengal →
- issued
- 2026-09-30 15:25Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-10-03 15:25Z
- sea
- Bay of Bengal
- position
- 19.370, 85.256
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-10-01 19:02Z
Original warning text
BAY OF BENGAL. INDIA. 1. YELLOW BUOY ADRIFT IN 19-22.19N 085-15.37E ON 27 SEP. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 031525Z OCT 26.
Reading this warning
- Off station / missing buoy
- A buoy that is not in its charted position — dragged, damaged, missing or removed.
- 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 · drifting objects
7 within 180 nm since 2005 · 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.
- Buoy reported adrift in 19-05N 087-58E on 29 apr2021-04-30
- Buoy reported adrift in 18-59.25N 087-45.19E at 271320Z apr2021-04-28
- 19 containers, two buoys, and one pontoon adrift in area within 140 miles of 19-47.3N 085-48.3E between 110…2019-11-17
- 2200 meter long oceanographic equipment with mooring buoy adrift in 17-03.48N 086-54.97E at 140700Z jan2015-01-14
- Four eight meter long objects adrift vicinity 19-56N 086-54E at 111040Z sep2011-09-14
- Ten meter long object adrift in 17-32.2N 083-46.7E at 050835Z nov2005-11-07
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
3 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 02:23Z; source collection times vary.
Debris
Logs, buoys, mooring gear and other objects adrift. All current drifting objects →
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.