Other

Naval operations are scheduled in the Caribbean Sea off Colombia from 29 September 0700Z to 1800Z in a defined area, cancelled 29 September 1900Z.

Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 927/26

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 2026-09-25 06:15Z. First collected 2026-09-25 18:17Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-25 21:47Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
Caribbean Sea. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Caribbean Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2026-09-29 07:00Z2026-09-29 18:00Z—11 h

Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.

issued
2026-09-25 06:15Z
status
Listed in force
self-cancels
2026-09-29 19:00Z
NAVAREA
NAVAREA IV
sea
Caribbean Sea
position
10.550, -76.067
nearest port
Cartagena · 33 nm
source
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-25 18:17Z

Original warning text

CARIBBEAN SEA.
COLOMBIA.
1. NAVAL OPERATIONS 290700Z TO 291800Z SEP
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   10-18.00N 076-15.00W, 10-48.00N 076-15.00W,
   10-48.00N 075-53.00W, 10-18.00N 075-53.00W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 291900Z SEP 26.

Reading this warning

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.
Area bound by
Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
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.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

All warning terms →

Conditions at the position · now

loading…

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

Collected reports in this area · other warnings

17 within 180 nm since 2006 · 6 in the last 12 months · 1 listed in force now

06
10
15
20
25
26

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

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D

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

21 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-25 21:54Z; 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.