Debris

Three mile long cables with buoys adrift within five miles of 50-58.3N 144-16.1E

Sea of Okhotsk · HYDROPAC 2941/13

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2013-09-29 10:40Z

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) · NAVAREA XIII 67/13 260857Z SEP 13.. Issued 2013-09-26 10:42Z. 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: Sea of Okhotsk. The parsed report position is 50.972, 144.268 with a 5.0 nm radius. 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 Sea of Okhotsk →

issued: 2013-09-26 10:42Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2013-09-29 10:40Z
authority: NAVAREA XIII 67/13 260857Z SEP 13.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA XIII · named as the source of this relay
sea: Sea of Okhotsk
position: 50.972, 144.268 · r 5.0 nm
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

SEA OF OKHOTSK.
1. THREE MILE LONG CABLES WITH BUOYS ADRIFT
   WITHIN FIVE MILES OF 50-58.3N 144-16.1E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 291040Z SEP 13.

Reading this warning

Adrift: Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
Within a radius of: A circular area — every position within a stated distance of a point.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · drifting objects

1 within 180 nm since 2013 · 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.

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

Underwater operations 25 may thru 31 dec in area bound by 51-34.92N 143-24.27E, 51-34.90N 144-06.22E,…Surveys · 13.6 nm
Wave rider buoy established in 51-22.54N 144-14.17ENav aids · 24.3 nm
Underwater operations 01 may thru 31 oct in areas bound by: a. 51-27.95N 143-26.72E, 51-29.25N 143-45.52E,…Surveys · 35 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

2 drifting objects listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 18:21Z; 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.