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Life ring with strobe light adrift in 12-42.2N 078-23.4W

Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 220/05

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2005-08-10 00:00Z

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) · E-MAIL USS BATAAN 030207Z AUG 05.. Issued 2005-08-03 03:06Z. 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 12.703, -78.390. 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: 2005-08-03 03:06Z
status: Archived notice
authority: E-MAIL USS BATAAN 030207Z AUG 05.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA IV
issued by: E-MAIL USS BATAAN
sea: Caribbean Sea
position: 12.703, -78.390
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. LIFE RING WITH STROBE LIGHT ADRIFT IN
   12-42.2N 078-23.4W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 10 AUG.

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.

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Collected reports in this area · other warnings

6 within 180 nm since 2005 · 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.

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S/V spika in need of assistance in 10-06N 077-11W2017-02-02

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

Cayo roncador light 13-34.41N 080-05.51W unlitNav aids · 112.4 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

20 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-24 22:14Z; 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.