{"id":1252,"date":"2026-11-06T23:33:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T23:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/navarea-ix-432-26-records-a-partially-submerged-container-in-the-southern-gulf\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T23:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T23:34:48","slug":"navarea-ix-432-26-records-a-partially-submerged-container-in-the-southern-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/navarea-ix-432-26-records-a-partially-submerged-container-in-the-southern-gulf\/","title":{"rendered":"NAVAREA IX 432-26 records a partially submerged container in the Southern Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hydrographer of Pakistan issued NAVAREA IX 432\/26 at 061500 UTC on 6 November as a Southern Gulf \/ UAE drifting-object warning. The official text, retrieved from the National Hydrographic Office product file 20261106SEC 432.txt<\/code>, reports an adrift floating and partially submerged shipping container in the vicinity of 25-09.71N 054-54.06E. The charts cited are BA 2886, 3176 and 3739. Mariners are requested to navigate with extreme caution. The notice cancels itself at 082359 UTC on 8 November. That is the working primary. It is a numbered drifting-container product on Southern Gulf UAE water. It is not a rewrite of this morning\u2019s dedicated 431\/26 Fujairah geotechnical survey on SKATE 3D, not a rewrite of August\u2019s dedicated 290\/26 Fujairah reclamation-buoy line, and not tonight\u2019s dedicated Warning 197-26 on the unnamed Khasab tanker.<\/p>\n

Pakistan\u2019s NAVAREA IX in-force table, as of Friday 6 November, now opens with 432\/26 as the first row: DTG 061500 UTC 6 November, region Southern Gulf \/ UAE, description FLOATING OR PARTIALLY SUBMERGED CONTAINER. Hold that table spelling. The same Friday table now carries this morning\u2019s dedicated 431\/26 as the second row: DTG 060300 UTC 6 November, region Southern Gulf UAE, Fujairah Port, description GEOTECNICAL SURVEY OPERATION. Hold that table spelling too. 430\/26 and 429\/26 remain the third and fourth rows, both DTG 051500 UTC 5 November, both described as self-cancelling \u2014 same-board wrap, unused as dedicated pieces. 428\/26 remains Wednesday morning\u2019s unused Amaala Triple Bay seaplane wrap. 427\/26 remains Wednesday morning\u2019s dedicated Shura Island seaplane zone. Masters who brief Friday night as a Fujairah jack-up reprint, as a Hormuz Attack, or as a second 290\/26 reclamation product will have merged a compact Southern Gulf drifting box into either a harbour survey or a security wreck.<\/p>\n

What the warning actually printed<\/h2>\n

The hydrographic text is short and is the working primary. DTG 061500 UTC NOV 2026. NAVAREA IX 432\/26. SOUTHERN GULF. UAE. CHARTS BA 2886, 3176 AND 3739. 1. ADRIFT FLOATING AND PARTIALLY SUBMERGED SHIPPING CONTAINER REPORTED IN VICINITY OF 25-09.71N 054-54.06E. MARINERS ARE REQUESTED TO NAVIGATE WITH EXTREME CAUTION. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG ON 082359 UTC NOV 26. Stay with that wording. The NHO table printed FLOATING OR PARTIALLY SUBMERGED CONTAINER; do not silently tidy that into the longer official-file sentence on the table line. The coordinator printed neither an IMO number, a hull, a flag, a DG class, a wreck buoy, a least depth, a radius in cables or metres, a recovery window, a VHF working channel, a numeric berth, a port-closure sentence, an origin vessel, nor a jettison clock. Stay with the vicinity plot, the partially submerged shipping container, extreme caution, and the 082359 UTC 8 November cancel.<\/p>\n

The geometry is the first briefing fact. The plot sits at 25-09.71N 054-54.06E on BA 2886 \/ 3176 \/ 3739 water \u2014 Southern Gulf UAE, on the Dubai \/ Jebel Ali approaches\u2019 western face, not in the Port of Fujairah and not in the Strait of Hormuz. This morning\u2019s dedicated 431\/26 four-corner jack-up box sits around 25-10.08N 056-22.38E on BA 2858 \/ 3520 \/ 3526, on the order of 80 nautical miles east of tonight\u2019s 054-54.06E plot. Same latitude band, different sea, different chart set, different product. Plot 25-09.71N 054-54.06E. A passage plan that only carried this morning\u2019s Fujairah jack-up, or that treated the Southern Gulf as empty because tonight\u2019s dedicated 197-26 sat 16 nautical miles east of Khasab, has not budgeted a partially submerged container on the inner-Gulf plot from 061500 UTC 6 November through 082359 UTC 8 November. Do not treat Jebel Ali as closed. Do not treat Dubai as closed. Do not treat Fujairah as this box. Do not run 6\u20138 November as if 25-09.71N 054-54.06E were empty water.<\/p>\n

The clock is the second briefing fact. 432\/26 carries a 061500 UTC 6 November issue time and a printed cancel at 082359 UTC 8 November. That is about two and a half days on the plot, not an until-further-notice wreck and not this morning\u2019s eight-day Fujairah survey. A passage plan that treats 25-09.71N 054-54.06E as live after 082359 UTC 8 November without a replacement NAVAREA has over-read a self-cancelling drifting-object warning. A passage plan that drops the watch at dusk on 6 November, or that only budgets the Friday night watch, has under-read a cancel that sits on 8 November. The coordinator did not print a drift vector, a current set, or a search radius around the vicinity plot. Do not invent a 1-nautical-mile halo. Do not invent a night suspension. Hold the container as reported in the vicinity of 25-09.71N 054-54.06E from the 061500 UTC stamp through the printed cancel, and treat \u201cvicinity\u201d as a lookout problem, not as a wreck buoy.<\/p>\n

The missing hull, DG class, wreck-buoy and least-depth lines are omissions, not a completed obstruction order. 432\/26 does not print a UN number, a reefer\/dry distinction, a colour, a least depth, or a mark. Partially submerged is the whole of the hazard sentence. Extreme caution is the whole of the instruction. Give the vicinity plot. Do not invent a five-cable keep-clear. Do not borrow 431\/26\u2019s four corners, 290\/26\u2019s buoy list, or 790\/26\u2019s Maslen Nos pair onto a Southern Gulf container that already says extreme caution. Do not treat the 082359 UTC 8 November cancel as a confirmed recovery. Self-cancel is a radio-warning clock. It is not a harbour-master all-clear that the box has been lifted.<\/p>\n

Same-board wrap, not this berth: 431\/26 remains this morning\u2019s dedicated Fujairah SKATE 3D harbour survey, 060300 UTC 6 November, four corners around 25-10.08N 056-22.38E, mariners cautioned, cancel 132359 UTC 13 November. 430\/26, 051500 UTC 5 November, BUOY RESTORED, CANCEL NAVAREA IX 481\/25 AND THIS MSG. 429\/26, 051500 UTC 5 November, OPERATION COMPLETED, CANCEL NAVAREA IX 453\/25 AND THIS MSG. Both remain wrap, unused as dedicated. 428\/26 remains the unused Amaala Triple Bay seaplane zone on BA 159. 427\/26 remains Wednesday morning\u2019s dedicated Shura Island seaplane zone. 426\/26 remains self-cancelled at 030800 UTC 3 November; the Friday NHO row is a stale listing, not a live 6 November shoot. 425\/26 remains Sunday night\u2019s dedicated Selat Storm wreck. 424\/26 remains Monday afternoon\u2019s dedicated 3\u20134 November firing box, now past 040700 UTC 4 November. 423\/26 remains the 310300 UTC 31 October in-force catalogue. 420\/26 remains the dedicated RITI fire-and-anchor. 417\/26 remains the dedicated MSV Quba wreck. 414\/26 remains the dedicated November Pakistan firing series through 302000 UTC 30 November. 290\/26 remains the in-force Fujairah reclamation-buoy line, DTG 201500 UTC 20 August. Those clocks are separate.<\/p>\n

What this is not<\/h2>\n

This is not a rewrite of 431\/26, and it is not a second Fujairah harbour product. This morning\u2019s dedicated 431\/26 remains a geotechnical survey in progress at the Port of Fujairah by the self-elevating platform SKATE 3D, four corners around 25-10.08N 056-22.38E, BA 2858 \/ 3520 \/ 3526, mariners cautioned, cancel 132359 UTC 13 November. 432\/26 names a partially submerged shipping container, names 25-09.71N 054-54.06E, names BA 2886 \/ 3176 \/ 3739, asks for extreme caution, and kills itself on 8 November. 431\/26 does not name a container. 432\/26 does not name SKATE 3D. A passage plan that drops the Fujairah jack-up because a container is now the top NHO row has deleted a 6\u201313 November harbour survey the coordinator has not cancelled. A passage plan that files 432\/26 under \u201cFujairah survey\u201d has put a drifting box on the wrong coast.<\/p>\n

This is not a rewrite of 290\/26, and it is not a second Fujairah reclamation product. 290\/26 remains the August buoy field for an ongoing reclamation operation at Fujairah Port. 432\/26 prints neither a buoy name nor a reclamation line. Do not brief Friday night as \u201cthe Fujairah buoys went adrift.\u201d Do not convert a Southern Gulf container into an aids-to-navigation defect at Fujairah.<\/p>\n

This is not a rewrite of 394\/26, and it is not an unlit-buoy casualty. 394\/26 remains the 211500 UTC 21 October Southern Gulf \/ UAE unlit-buoy caution. 432\/26 prints a shipping container, not a buoy. Do not brief Friday night as \u201cthe Dubai lights went out.\u201d Do not convert a drifting box into an aids-to-navigation defect.<\/p>\n

This is not a security-incident NAVAREA and not a wreck product. 425\/26 remains the dedicated Selat Storm wreck. 420\/26 remains the dedicated RITI fire-and-anchor. 417\/26 remains the dedicated Quba wreck. 389\/26 remains the Gulf of Oman oil-tanker security-incident caution on the dedicated Petro Dolphin file. Tonight\u2019s dedicated Warning 197-26 remains an unnamed tanker Attack 16 nautical miles east of Khasab. This afternoon\u2019s dedicated IMO 129-count remains the first official IMO fatality print of Velos Sapphire (IMO 9321201), Damaged, no pollution, one seafarer fatality. Dedicated Update 111 remains the 5 November JMIC note, ICOD 051300 UTC, 172 confirmed, Hormuz SEVERE. 432\/26 names none of those hulls, prints no projectile, and does not sit 16 nautical miles east of Khasab. Update 111\u2019s congestion colour \u2014 about 179 hulls at Fujairah \/ Khor Fakkan and about 141 at Dubai \/ Jebel Ali\u2013Ras Al Khaimah \u2014 is colour on last night\u2019s dedicated 111 file, not a 432\/26 count and not a reason to treat the vicinity plot as an anchorage closure.<\/p>\n

This is not NAVWARN 790\/26, and it is not a Black Sea container rewrite. Thursday morning\u2019s dedicated 790\/26 remains two drifting containers east of Maslen Nos at 42-19N 028-21E and 42-17N 028-24E. 432\/26 is a single Southern Gulf container at 25-09.71N 054-54.06E. Two seas, two coordinators, two products. This is also not unused NAVAREA II 386\/2026 on drifting containers off Pointe Noire at 04-11S 010-39E \u2014 that West African file remains unused as dedicated. Do not promote Burgas, Ahtopol, Maslen Nos or Pointe Noire onto a UAE plot.<\/p>\n

This is not a Dubai, Jebel Ali, Abu Dhabi, Fujairah or Hormuz port closure, not a Gulf TSS change, and not a rewrite of 219\/26\u2019s Dubai no-anchoring zone. 432\/26 prints extreme caution in the vicinity of one reported position. It does not close Jebel Ali. It does not close Dubai. It does not close the offshore tanker anchorage. It does not reopen Hormuz. It does not cancel 431\/26, 290\/26, 414\/26, 425\/26 or 427\/26. It is not a Houthi merchant-attack product. Update 111 still prints the last confirmed Houthi merchant attack as 24 August. 432\/26 prints a partially submerged shipping container \u2014 not a strike, not a projectile, and not a keep-clear in nautical miles.<\/p>\n

Operational implications<\/h2>\n

For a master inbound to Jebel Ali or Dubai, shaping the Abu Dhabi\u2013Dubai coastal track, shifting between the inner harbour and the offshore anchorage, or bunkering and waiting on BA 2886 \/ 3176 \/ 3739 water this weekend, 432\/26 is a lookout amendment before it is a cargo-loss story. The plot sits in the vicinity of 25-09.71N 054-54.06E. The notice names a partially submerged shipping container. It does not print a vertical limit, a lighting scheme, a radar-conspicuity line, a VHF working channel, a named recovery craft, or a numeric berth. Extreme caution is the whole instruction, with a hard cancel at 082359 UTC on 8 November. A passage plan that treats 25-09.71N 054-54.06E as a charted wreck after that cancel without a replacement NAVAREA has over-read a self-cancelling drifting-object warning. A passage plan that only annotates \u201ccontainer, Southern Gulf\u201d without the vicinity plot has under-read a numbered NAVAREA that exists to be plotted. Partially submerged containers sit low, take water, and return a poor radar echo. The watch is visual and lookout, not a TSS rewrite.<\/p>\n

431\/26 is the second Southern Gulf problem on the same Friday table. The Fujairah jack-up box remains in force through 132359 UTC 13 November. Hulls working Fujairah this week still need the four-corner harbour plot. Hulls working Dubai \/ Jebel Ali this weekend need the 25-09.71N 054-54.06E vicinity plot. Do not assume the jack-up is idle because a container is now the top NHO row. Do not assume the container is idle because the fixture is \u201conly a Fujairah wait.\u201d The coordinator issued a new number against inner-Gulf water, not a cancellation of this morning\u2019s harbour survey. 290\/26 remains the August reclamation-buoy field at Fujairah. Three Southern Gulf products, three plots.<\/p>\n

For DPAs with Dubai, Jebel Ali, Abu Dhabi, Fujairah, Khor Fakkan, Hormuz or Gulf of Oman stems this weekend, the operational question is whether the planned coastal track clips 25-09.71N 054-54.06E, not whether the United Arab Emirates \u201cclosed Jebel Ali.\u201d 432\/26 does not close the port. It does not close the offshore anchorage. It does not reopen Hormuz. It does not cancel 431\/26, 290\/26, 414\/26, 425\/26 or 427\/26. A fixture that only budgeted this morning\u2019s Fujairah jack-up, tonight\u2019s Khasab Attack, or Sunday night\u2019s Selat Storm wreck has not budgeted a partially submerged container on the inner-Gulf plot through 8 November. 414\/26 remains the November four-box Pakistan firing product through 30 November. 411\/26 remains the Qatar pipelay berth through 26 November. Those clocks are separate.<\/p>\n

The stale rows on this evening\u2019s NHO table are a second briefing trap. 426\/26 is still printed as live weapon firing. That notice self-cancelled at 030800 UTC 3 November. 424\/26 is still printed as live weapon firing. That notice cancelled at 040700 UTC 4 November. 416\/26 is still printed as a possible pirate-action-group off Somalia. That notice printed a 032359 UTC 3 November cancel. Do not restore those products because the Friday table still lists them. Do not treat 432\/26 as the replacement for any of those cancels. The new work is the Southern Gulf container plot. 429\/26 and 430\/26 are housekeeping self-cancels from yesterday afternoon, unused as dedicated. 431\/26 is this morning\u2019s dedicated Fujairah survey, still in force. Everything else on the Friday table is either a dedicated earlier file or a stale listing.<\/p>\n

Do not recast 6 November evening as a Jebel Ali exclusion zone around 25-09.71N 054-54.06E, a named-hull casualty, a rewrite of 431\/26, a rewrite of 790\/26, or a Hormuz product. The confirmed facts are NAVAREA IX 432\/26, 061500 UTC 6 November, Southern Gulf UAE, BA 2886 \/ 3176 \/ 3739, adrift floating and partially submerged shipping container in vicinity of 25-09.71N 054-54.06E, mariners requested to navigate with extreme caution, cancel 082359 UTC 8 November, with 431\/26 still in force on the same Friday table as the Fujairah jack-up and with 429\/26 and 430\/26 the same-board self-cancel wrap.<\/p>\n

What Operators Should Note<\/h2>\n
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  • Log 432\/26 as a Southern Gulf drifting-container caution, not as a port closure and not as a Fujairah rewrite.<\/strong> NAVAREA IX 432\/26, 061500 UTC 6 November. Southern Gulf \/ UAE. Charts BA 2886, 3176 and 3739. Adrift floating and partially submerged shipping container reported in vicinity of 25-09.71N 054-54.06E. Mariners are requested to navigate with extreme caution. Cancel 082359 UTC 8 November. Official file 20261106SEC 432.txt<\/code>. NHO Friday table: first row, FLOATING OR PARTIALLY SUBMERGED CONTAINER. The notice names neither IMO, hull, DG class, wreck buoy, least depth, radius, VHF, numeric berth nor a harbour-master closure. This is not 431\/26, not 290\/26, not 197-26, not Update 111, and not a Jebel Ali shutdown.<\/li>\n
  • Plot one 25-09.71N vicinity, not the Fujairah harbour box.<\/strong> The plot sits on BA 2886 \/ 3176 \/ 3739 water on the Dubai \/ Jebel Ali approaches\u2019 western face, on the order of 80 nautical miles west of this morning\u2019s dedicated 431\/26 four-corner jack-up around 25-10.08N 056-22.38E. Do not slide the box out to Fujairah or Khor Fakkan. Do not invent a VHF working channel, a numeric berth, a wreck buoy, a least depth or a 1-nautical-mile halo. 431\/26 remains the dedicated Fujairah SKATE 3D harbour survey through 132359 UTC 13 November \u2014 unused as a rewrite, still in force, not cancelled by 432\/26. 290\/26 remains the dedicated August reclamation-buoy field at Fujairah.<\/li>\n
  • Give the printed cancel, then kill the watch.<\/strong> Reported from 061500 UTC 6 November. Cancel 082359 UTC 8 November. Do not treat the plot as until further notice. Do not drop it at dusk on 6 November. Do not keep avoiding 25-09.71N 054-54.06E after 082359 UTC 8 November without a replacement NAVAREA. Do not treat the self-cancel as a confirmed recovery. Partially submerged is a lookout and poor-radar problem until that clock, not a charted wreck.<\/li>\n
  • Keep the stale NHO rows and yesterday\u2019s self-cancels off the live folder.<\/strong> 430\/26 restored a buoy and cancelled 481\/25. 429\/26 completed an operation and cancelled 453\/25. Both remain wrap, unused as dedicated. 426\/26 self-cancelled at 030800 UTC 3 November; the Friday listing is stale. 424\/26 cancelled at 040700 UTC 4 November; the Friday listing is stale. 416\/26 printed a 032359 UTC 3 November cancel. Do not restore those numbers because they still appear on the 6 November table.<\/li>\n
  • Keep the Hormuz wrecks, the Red Sea seaplane zones, the Pakistan firing series and the Black Sea boxes on their own files.<\/strong> 425\/26 remains dedicated Selat Storm at 26-22.55N 056-20.47E. 420\/26 remains dedicated RITI. 417\/26 remains dedicated Quba. 427\/26 remains dedicated Shura Island on BA 159. 428\/26 remains unused Amaala wrap. 414\/26 remains the November four-box product through 302000 UTC 30 November. 411\/26 remains the Qatar pipelay berth through 26 November. 389\/26 Petro Dolphin remains an in-force security-incident caution. 423\/26 remains the 31 October in-force list. Thursday morning\u2019s dedicated 790\/26 remains two drifting containers east of Maslen Nos \u2014 unused as a 432\/26 rewrite. Unused NAVAREA II 386\/2026 remains Pointe Noire drifting containers, unused as dedicated. Tonight\u2019s 197-26, this afternoon\u2019s IMO 129-count on Velos Sapphire, and last night\u2019s Update 111 remain their own dedicated files.<\/li>\n
  • Jebel Ali, Dubai, Fujairah and Hormuz are not closed by this notice.<\/strong> Southern Gulf traffic now carries a partially submerged container on a vicinity plot through 8 November, with this morning\u2019s Fujairah jack-up still in force through 13 November beside it. Watch a later NAVAREA that moves 25-09.71N 054-54.06E, adds a radius \/ wreck buoy \/ least depth \/ DG class, prints recovery, or extends past 082359 UTC 8 November \u2014 not a completed lift, not a Fujairah naming, and not a Hormuz rewrite.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Regulas Shipping will keep lining NAVAREA IX 432\/26 against this morning\u2019s still-in-force 431\/26 Fujairah jack-up and against tonight\u2019s dedicated Hormuz Attack so operators can treat the Southern Gulf container as a numbered 6\u20138 November extreme-caution plot, not as a port closure or a security wreck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Hydrographer of Pakistan issued NAVAREA IX 432\/26 at 061500 UTC on 6 November as a Southern Gulf \/ UAE drifting-object warning. The official text, retrieved from the National Hydrographic Office product file 20261106SEC 432.txt, reports an adrift floating and partially submerged shipping container in the vicinity of 25-09.71N 054-54.06E. The charts cited are BA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,20,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights","category-maritime-regulations","category-maritime-security","category-regulatory-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}