Wood planks adrift in 15-56.79N 061-41.83W at 221752Z jun
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 704/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-06-25 22:52Z
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 1061/23 221901Z JUN 23.. Issued 2023-06-22 22:55Z. 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 15.947, -61.697. 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
- 2023-06-22 22:55Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-06-25 22:52Z
- authority
- AVURNAV LOCAL FORT DE FRANCE 1061/23 221901Z JUN 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- AVURNAV LOCAL FORT DE FRANCE
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 15.947, -61.697
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA. GUADELOUPE. 1. WOOD PLANKS ADRIFT IN 15-56.79N 061-41.83W AT 221752Z JUN. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 252252Z JUN 23.
Reading this warning
- 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 · other warnings
44 within 180 nm since 1998 · 2 in the last 12 months · 2 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.
- Ilet du gosier light 16-11.90N 061-29.44W at reduced intensity2026-09-18
- Ilet gosier lighthouse 16-11.91N 061-29.45W at reduced intensity2026-09-04
- Tree tunks adrift in 16-15.36N 061-49.14W at 261102Z may2024-05-26
- Red flare sighted in vicinity 16-04.99N 062-23.65W at 200115Z feb2024-02-20
- Tree trunk adrift in vicinity 18-14.46N 062-27.46W at 031526Z dec2023-12-04
- Phare de la caravelle light 14-46.33N 060-52.91W at reduced intensity2023-11-25
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
- Pointe du vieux fort light 15-56.90N 061-42.46WNav aids · 0.6 nm
- Ilet du gosier light 16-11.90N 061-29.44W at reduced intensityOther · 19.2 nm
- Carenage range rear light 14-36.32N 061-03.74W changed to oc (2) g 50 meters 9 milesNav aids · 88.5 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
23 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 19:17Z; 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.