Debris

Partially submerged rectangular metallic object adrift in vicinity 12-58.31N 081-37.09W at 190030Z nov

Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 1044/21

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2021-11-22 02:35Z

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) · COLOMBIA 190220Z NOV 21.. Issued 2021-11-19 02:35Z. 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
Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 12.972, -81.618. 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 Caribbean Sea →

issued
2021-11-19 02:35Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2021-11-22 02:35Z
authority
COLOMBIA 190220Z NOV 21.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA IV
issued by
COLOMBIA
sea
Caribbean Sea
position
12.972, -81.618
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA.
COLOMBIA.
1. PARTIALLY SUBMERGED RECTANGULAR METALLIC OBJECT
   ADRIFT IN VICINITY 12-58.31N 081-37.09W
   AT 190030Z NOV.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 220235Z NOV 21.

Reading this warning

Semi-submerged
Floating at or just below the surface, so hard to see by eye or radar.
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.
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.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · drifting objects

1 within 180 nm since 2021 · 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

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A
M
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A
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N
D

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 2026-10-04 04:49Z; 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.