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A 32-foot blue-hulled vessel is partially submerged at 12-26.94N 068-09.73W near Bonaire, Caribbean Sea, as of 081024Z April.

Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 403/24

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-08-14 18:10Z

This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.

Source and dates: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · DUTCH CARIBBEAN COAST GUARD 0/24 080917Z APR 24.. Issued 2024-04-08 09:28Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:50Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 12.449, -68.162. 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: 2024-04-08 09:28Z
status: Cancelled notice
authority: DUTCH CARIBBEAN COAST GUARD 0/24 080917Z APR 24.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA IV
issued by: DUTCH CARIBBEAN COAST GUARD
sea: Caribbean Sea
position: 12.449, -68.162
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

CARIBBEAN SEA.
BONAIRE.
PARTIALLY SUBMERGED 32 FOOT LONG VESSEL,
BLUE HULL, IN 12-26.94N 068-09.73W AT
081024Z APR.

Reading this warning

Semi-submerged: Floating at or just below the surface, so hard to see by eye or radar.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · other warnings

2 within 180 nm since 2016 · 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.

Green flare sighted in 12-48N 067-30W2016-12-03

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

Klein bonaire light 12-09.37N 068-19.61W unlitNav aids · 20.1 nm
Klein curacao light 11-59.4N 068-38.6W unlitNav aids · 39.5 nm
Cayo noroeste light 11-13.31N 068-26.28W unlitNav aids · 75.4 nm
Cabo negro light 11-30.15N 069-33.34W unlitNav aids · 99.6 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

21 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 11:01Z; 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.