Buoys, red and white, partially submerged and adrift in vicinity 17-54.82N 062-52.93W at 251300Z mar
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 344/24
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2024-03-28 14:29Z
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 LOCAL FORT DE FRANCE 1042/24 251402Z MAR 24.. Issued 2024-03-25 14:37Z. 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 17.914, -62.882. 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
- 2024-03-25 14:37Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2024-03-28 14:29Z
- authority
- AVURNAV LOCAL FORT DE FRANCE 1042/24 251402Z MAR 24.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- AVURNAV LOCAL FORT DE FRANCE
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 17.914, -62.882
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA. GUADELOUPE. 1. BUOYS, RED AND WHITE, PARTIALLY SUBMERGED AND ADRIFT IN VICINITY 17-54.82N 062-52.93W AT 251300Z MAR. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 281429Z MAR 24.
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.
Collected reports in this area · drifting objects
13 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.
- Debris adrift in 15-54.12N 061-39.48W at 301425Z2024-03-30
- Debris adrift in area within five miles of 15-33.00N 062-42.00W at 122330Z feb2023-02-13
- 60 foot log adrift in 15-48.90N 062-17.18W at 141230Z oct2022-10-14
- 20 six meter logs adrift in vicinity of trackline joining 16-08.70N 061-30.07W, 16-07.36N 061-30.56W2022-09-07
- Orange buoy adrift in 17-43.28N 062-48.74W at 312300Z may2022-06-01
- Yellow buoy adrift in vicinity 16-47.7N 062-13.3W at 181300Z apr2022-04-20
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
- Anchoring prohibited until further notice in area bound by 18-13.60N 063-04.15W, 18-13.60N 063-04.70W,…Other · 21.6 nm
- Kitts and nevisSpills · 46.2 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
3 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 16:30Z; 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.