Odas buoy 42040 adrift in vicinity 29-10-53N 088-26-03W at 150700Z sep
Gulf of Mexico · NAVAREA IV 871/20
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2020-09-18 08:25Z
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 150744Z SEP 20.. Issued 2020-09-15 08:25Z. 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
- Gulf of Mexico. The parsed report position is 29.181, -88.434. 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 Gulf of Mexico →
- issued
- 2020-09-15 08:25Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2020-09-18 08:25Z
- authority
- NDBC 150744Z SEP 20.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- NDBC
- sea
- Gulf of Mexico
- position
- 29.181, -88.434
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
GULF OF MEXICO. LOUISIANA. 1. ODAS BUOY 42040 ADRIFT IN VICINITY 29-10-53N 088-26-03W AT 150700Z SEP. UPDATED POSITIONS CAN BE FOUND AT: WWW.NDBC.NOAA.GOV/nws_special/42040.txt. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 180825Z SEP 20.
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
14 within 180 nm since 2005 · 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 42039 adrift in vicinity 28-39-39N 086-14-47W at 061300Z mar2021-03-06
- Odas buoy 42039 adrift in vicinity 28-44-24N 086-04-48W at 032300Z mar2021-03-04
- 1.5 meter long yellow object adrift in vicinity 27-39.3N 089-14.1W at 071051Z jan2017-01-18
- Noaa buoy 42040 adrift in 29-10-11N 088-08-27W at 221842Z jan2016-01-22
- Seven mile long cable marked by buoy, yellow, fl w adrift in 26-51N 087-58W at 180839Z mar2014-03-18
- Ten foot buoy, red and white, fl w, adrift in 29-00-00N 088-21-36W at 200615Z oct2013-10-21
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
3 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 00:44Z; 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.