Icebergs

The North American Ice Service reports iceberg limits along tracklines in the North Atlantic, with the latest satellite reconnaissance on 24 September, and asks mariners to report icebergs.

Labrador Sea · NAVAREA IV 925/26

What this record establishes

Listed in force

The latest collected record lists this warning as active. This is the status of the notice, not a live observation of conditions at the location.

Source and dates: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-09-24 20:28Z. First collected 2026-09-25 18:17Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-25 21:32Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Labrador Sea. The map shows the reported line or operation extent; it is not a vessel track. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Labrador Sea →

issued: 2026-09-24 20:28Z
status: Listed in force
self-cancels: 2026-09-26 00:01Z
NAVAREA: NAVAREA IV
sea: Labrador Sea
position: 59.336, -46.305
nearest port: Nanortalik · 58 nm
source: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-25 18:17Z

Original warning text

1. NORTH AMERICAN ICE SERVICE (NAIS)
   ICEBERG BULLETIN 250001Z SEP.
2. ICEBERG LIMIT ALONG TRACKLINE JOINING
   49-30N 055-10W, 51-30N 053-30W,
   54-00N 053-30W, 60-00N 058-00W.
3. ESTIMATED ICEBERG LIMIT ALONG
   TRACKLINE JOINING
   60-00N 058-00W, 61-25N 054-35W,
   59-05N 047-45W, 58-55N 042-25W,
   62-40N 038-40W, 63-40N 027-25W.
4. WESTERN ICEBERG LIMIT ALONG TRACKLINE
   JOINING
   51-39N 056-43W, 51-28N 056-15W.
5. MOST RECENT RECONNAISSANCE:
   EASTERN LIMIT SATELLITE PASS 24 SEP 26.
6. REPORT POSITION AND TIME OF ANY ICEBERGS
   SEA ICE OR STATIONARY RADAR TARGETS THAT
   MAY LIKELY BE ICE TO THE NEAREST CANADIAN
   COAST GUARD MARINE COMMUNICATIONS AND
   TRAFFIC SERVICE STATION OR
   USING INMARSAT CODE 42.
7. FOR MORE REPORTING INFORMATION OR TO
   DOWNLOAD SHAPEFILES AND WEEKLY PREDICTIONS,
   GO TO WWW.NAVCEN.USCG.GOV/INTERNATIONAL-ICE-PATROL.
8. CANCEL THIS MSG 260001Z SEP 26.

Reading this warning

Icebergs and ice limits: Icebergs, smaller pieces of glacier ice and the published limit of known ice.
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.
Track line joining: Introduces a route through a series of positions — a cable route, a tow's track or a survey line.
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.
Inmarsat-C / SafetyNET: The satellite system that carries NAVAREA warnings to ships at sea, and the terminal number rescue centres give for reports.
CANCEL THIS MSG: The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

All warning terms →

Ice services

International Ice Patrol charts & bulletins · U.S. National Ice Center

Conditions at the position · now

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MET Norway · NOAA WaveWatch III · HYCOM · GEBCO 2020 · model data at the centroid, not an observation

Collected reports in this area · iceberg & sea-ice bulletins

1266 within 180 nm since 2000 · 21 in the last 12 months · 1 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

6 iceberg & sea-ice bulletins listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-25 21:45Z; source collection times vary.

Icebergs

Iceberg limits and reported bergs — mostly the North American Ice Service (International Ice Patrol) bulletins in the North Atlantic. All current iceberg & sea-ice bulletins →

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.