Fish aggregating device (fad) with semi-submerged beacon adrift in 14-40.49N 063-53.09W at 131801Z jun
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 649/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-06-16 18:01Z
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 1056/23 131900Z JUN 23.. Issued 2023-06-13 19:38Z. 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 14.675, -63.885. 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
- 2023-06-13 19:38Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-06-16 18:01Z
- authority
- AVURNAV LOCAL FORT DE FRANCE 1056/23 131900Z JUN 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- AVURNAV LOCAL FORT DE FRANCE
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 14.675, -63.885
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA. 1. FISH AGGREGATING DEVICE (FAD) WITH SEMI-SUBMERGED BEACON ADRIFT IN 14-40.49N 063-53.09W AT 131801Z JUN. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 161801Z JUN 23.
Reading this warning
- Fish aggregating device (FAD)
- Floating rafts, nets and lines used by fishing fleets — hazards to propellers when they are adrift or unlit.
- 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
19 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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
- Seven meter log adrift in vicinity 14-49.83N 061-15.55W2023-08-27
- 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 object adrift in vicinity 14-22.00N 060-57.00W at 101611Z aug2022-08-12
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
2 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 11:47Z; 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.