Six-eight foot green buoy adrift in 28-58-30N 093-31-24W at 191534Z jan
Gulf of Mexico · NAVAREA IV 31/13
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2013-01-22 22:50Z
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) · COMCOGARD SECTOR HOUSTON 68/13 192138Z JAN 13.. Issued 2013-01-19 22:52Z. 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
- Gulf of Mexico. The parsed report position is 28.975, -93.523. 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 Gulf of Mexico →
- issued
- 2013-01-19 22:52Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2013-01-22 22:50Z
- authority
- COMCOGARD SECTOR HOUSTON 68/13 192138Z JAN 13.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- COMCOGARD SECTOR HOUSTON
- sea
- Gulf of Mexico
- position
- 28.975, -93.523
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
GULF OF MEXICO. 1. SIX-EIGHT FOOT GREEN BUOY ADRIFT IN 28-58-30N 093-31-24W AT 191534Z JAN. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 222250Z JAN 13.
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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · drifting objects
6 within 180 nm since 2003 · 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.
- Eight foot long object partially submerged and adrift in 29-40-08N 093-45-13W2013-06-06
- 80 foot object adrift vicinity 28-33-04N 094-55-27W2009-02-22
- Partially submerged object, possible oil rig, in 27-17.47N 090-58.24W2005-09-24
- Partially submerged object, one meter visible above surface, vicinity 28-42.6N 090-24.3W2005-09-14
- 10000 meter long cable with four buoys adrift in 27-39N 093-08W at 140100Z aug2003-08-14
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
2 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 21:51Z; 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.