Debris

A five-meter white and grey cylindrical object is adrift at 38-11.50N 053-32.50W; warning cancels August 16, 22:43 UTC.

North Atlantic Ocean · NAVAREA IV 788/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-08-21 15:40Z

This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.

Source and dates: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-08-13 22:35Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-23 11:47Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 38.192, -53.542. 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: 2026-08-13 22:35Z
status: Cancelled notice
self-cancels: 2026-08-16 22:43Z
NAVAREA: NAVAREA IV
sea: North Atlantic Ocean
position: 38.192, -53.542
nearest port: Grand Bank · 544 nm
source: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

NORTH ATLANTIC.
1. FIVE METER LONG WHITE AND GREY CYLINDRICAL
    OBJECT ADRIFT IN 38-11.50N 053-32.50W AT 132131Z AUG.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 162243Z AUG 26.

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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · drifting objects

5 within 180 nm since 2011 · 1 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.

Buoy, green, adrift in 36-41.72N 056-42.08W at 011557Z may2019-05-01
20 meter long yellow rectangular object adrift in 36-05.3N 051-36.5W2016-10-01
Dart buoy 44401 adrift vicinity 37-24-41N 050-02-29W2016-02-11
Odas buoy 44401 adrift vicinity 37-50-23N 049-57-16W2011-04-16

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 2026-10-01 06:27Z; 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.