Subsurface moorings established within 80 meters of surface in: a. 56-33.6N 052-39.5W
Labrador Sea · NAVAREA IV 623/96
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 1999-03-19 00:00Z
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). Issued 1996-08-21 20:53Z. 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
- Labrador Sea. The parsed report position is 56.549, -51.931. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 1996-08-21 20:53Z
- status
- Archived notice
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- sea
- Labrador Sea
- position
- 56.549, -51.931
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CHART 110 (2ND ED). SUBSURFACE MOORINGS ESTABLISHED WITHIN 80 METERS OF SURFACE IN: A. 56-33.6N 052-39.5W. B. 55-19.5N 053-53.6W. C. 56-15.1N 048-42.0W. D. 58-30.0N 050-34.2W. E. 57-29.5N 051-39.1W. F. 55-09.9N 054-06.9W.
Reading this warning
- Chart reference
- The number of the nautical chart on which the reported position lies.
- Scientific mooring
- Instruments anchored to the seabed and held up by floats, sometimes just below the surface, left for months to measure the ocean.
- Within a radius of
- A circular area — every position within a stated distance of a point.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · other warnings
3 within 180 nm since 1996 · 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.
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
23 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 11:16Z; 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.