A lighted buoy at latitude 09-25.99N longitude 079-49.78W is missing.
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 545/26
What this record establishes
Listed in force
The latest collected record lists this warning as active. This is the status of the notice, not a live observation of conditions at the location.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-06-06 21:26Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-10-01 05:32Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 9.433, -79.830. 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
- 2026-06-06 21:26Z
- status
- Listed in force
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 9.433, -79.830
- nearest port
- Colon · 5 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
LM BUOY 09-25.99N 079-49.78W MISSING.
Reading this warning
- Off station / missing buoy
- A buoy that is not in its charted position — dragged, damaged, missing or removed.
- 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.
Conditions at the position · now
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MET Norway · NOAA WaveWatch III · HYCOM · GEBCO 2020 · model data at the centroid, not an observation
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
30 within 180 nm since 2000 · 2 in the last 12 months · 5 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.
- Manzanillo entrance west head light 09-22.90N 079-53.90W damaged2026-02-06
- Starboard hand 4 buoy 09-23.52N 079-53.87W missing2025-06-24
- Port hand 3 buoy 09-23.52N 079-53.75W missing2025-06-20
- Manzanillo entrance light 09-22.90N 079-53.90W temporarily changed to white2025-05-07
- Cabo tiburon light 08-40.60N 077-21.50W inoperative2024-05-13
- Buoy NO1 09-25.09N 079-49.50W destroyed2024-01-04
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
- Port hand 3 buoy 09-23.52N 079-53.75W missingNav aids · 4.6 nm
- Starboard hand 4 buoy 09-23.52N 079-53.87W missingNav aids · 4.7 nm
- Manzanillo entrance west head light 09-22.90N 079-53.90W damagedNav aids · 5.1 nm
- Manzanillo entrance light 09-22.90N 079-53.90W temporarily changed to whiteNav aids · 5.1 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
137 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 05:36Z; source collection times vary.
Nav aids
Lights extinguished, buoys off station, RACON/NAVTEX outages. All current aids-to-navigation notices →
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.