1600 meter long cable with orange and yellow buoys adrift in 21-32.25S 055-54.50E
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 3579/20
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2020-12-07 05:19Z
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 43/20 040455Z DEC 20.. Issued 2020-12-04 05:19Z. 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
- Indian Ocean. The parsed report position is -21.538, 55.908. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
These reports were linked by category and sea, with positions within 30 nautical miles and issue dates within 30 days of another report's recorded in-force span. Links can extend through other members, so the full group can cover a larger area or period. Proximity does not confirm that they describe one incident.
- HYDROPAC 3235/202020-11-03 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 3264/202020-11-05 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 3579/20 · this notice2020-12-04 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2020-12-04 05:19Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2020-12-07 05:19Z
- authority
- AVURNAV LA REUNION 43/20 040455Z DEC 20.
- issued by
- AVURNAV LA REUNION
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- -21.538, 55.908
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN. REUNION. DNC 02. 1. 1600 METER LONG CABLE WITH ORANGE AND YELLOW BUOYS ADRIFT IN 21-32.25S 055-54.50E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 070519Z DEC 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 · drifting objects
33 within 180 nm since 2010 · 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.
- Fishing gear, marked by orange floats, adrift in 20-39.00S 055-16.00E at 091200Z apr2024-04-10
- Dcp buoy adrift in vicinity 22-09.50S 055-17.90E2023-03-02
- Buoy, yellow, adrift in 21-25.6S 055-08.5E2022-02-10
- Wooden debris adrift in 21-10.50S 055-12.33E on 29 mar 212021-03-29
- Fishing gear with floats adrift in 21-44S 055-35E on 20 jan2021-01-21
- Three mile long fishing net with red floats adrift in 21-32S 056-05E at 050042Z nov2020-11-05
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
2 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 00:04Z; 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.