Odas buoy 41421 adrift in vicinity 23-26-50N 064-17-05W at 260140Z jul
North Atlantic Ocean · NAVAREA IV 621/17
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2017-07-29 03:04Z
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) · NDBC 260228Z JUL 17.. Issued 2017-07-26 03:04Z. 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
- North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 23.447, -64.285. 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 North Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2017-07-26 03:04Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2017-07-29 03:04Z
- authority
- NDBC 260228Z JUL 17.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- NDBC
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 23.447, -64.285
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 1. ODAS BUOY 41421 ADRIFT IN VICINITY 23-26-50N 064-17-05W AT 260140Z JUL. UPDATED POSITIONS CAN BE FOUND AT: WWW.NDBC.NOAA.GOV/nws_special/41421.txt. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 290304Z JUL 17.
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
9 within 180 nm since 2010 · 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.
- Odas buoy 41420 adrift in vicinity 23-14.50N 067-27.95W at 040700Z nov2022-11-04
- Odas buoy 41420 adrift in vicinity 23-29-32N 067-24-12W at 051953Z sep2021-09-05
- Odas buoy 41420 adrift in 23-37-22N 067-18-12W at 030124Z jun2017-06-03
- Dart buoy 41420 adrift in 23-34-08N 067-27-27W at 080708Z apr2016-04-08
- Noaa buoy 41420 adrift in 23-24.0N 067-32.9W at 010700Z dec2014-12-02
- Dart buoy 41421 adrift vicinity 23-24-55N 063-58-02W2012-05-14
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
3 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-26 12:38Z; 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.