Urgent Nav Alerts

FL: Lake Okeechobee, Lake Level Alert / SEP 24 2025

  • Date Reported: Sep 30, 2025
  • Reporter: Waterway Guide Staff
  • Source: USACE JACKSONVILLE
  • Description:
    Data Ending 2400 hours 29 SEP 2025    Lake Okeechobee Stage =  13.49 (Feet-NGVD29)Route 1 Navigational Depth ≈  7.43 FeetRoute 2 Navigational Depth ≈   5.63 Feet **Note...
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  • Lat / Lon: N 26° 52.323' / W 080° 45.934'

VT: Whitehall Narrows - Main Passage, Shoaling and Uncharted Rocks Reported

  • Date Reported: Sep 11, 2025
  • Reporter: Waterway Guide Staff
  • Source: USCG District 1
  • Description:
    Uncharted rocks and shoaling have been reported in the vicinity of Phelps Point, Rock Ledge, and South of Garden Island. Mariners are advised to transit...
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  • Lat / Lon: N 44° 37.267' / W 073° 20.983'

NJ: Swash Channel - Raritan Bay, Sunken Vessel, Hazard

  • Date Reported: Sep 11, 2025
  • Reporter: Waterway Guide Staff
  • Source: USCG District 1
  • Description:
    ALL MARINERS BE ADVISED OF A PARTIALLY SUBMERGED VESSEL IN THE VICINITY OF WARD POINT BEND IN APPROXIMATE POSITION 40-29.64N, 074-14.39W. VESSEL REPORTED TO BE...
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  • Lat / Lon: N 40° 29.640' / W 074° 14.390'

NC: Beaufort Inlet - Shackleford Banks, Sunken Vessel

  • Date Reported: Sep 11, 2025
  • Reporter: Waterway Guide Staff
  • Source: USCG District 5
  • Description:
    An unlit sailboat has partially sunk at this approximate position. Mariners are urged to exercise caution when transiting this area.
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  • Lat / Lon: N 34° 40.736' / W 076° 36.681'

NC: Alligator River, Alligator River Bridge, Alternative Route

  • Date Reported: Sep 4, 2025
  • Reporter: Waterway Guide Staff
  • Source: USCG District 5
  • Description:
    All mariners be advised the NCDOT is driving piles for construction of the new Alligator River Bridge (AIWW MM 84.2) from October 01 through November...
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  • Lat / Lon: N 35° 54.448' / W 076° 00.108'

MA: Plum Island Sound - Merrimack River, Wreck

  • Date Reported: Sep 4, 2025
  • Reporter: Waterway Guide Staff
  • Source: USCG District 1
  • Description:
     A white regulatory buoy was placed 42-49-05.5N 070-48-03.6W, in the vicinity of a sunk wreck for mariner awareness. Mariners are advised the wreck may be...
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  • Lat / Lon: N 42° 49.091' / W 070° 48.060'

VA: James River - Elizabeth River, Hampton Roads Harbor, Dredging Activity

  • Date Reported: Sep 4, 2025
  • Reporter: Waterway Guide Staff
  • Source: USCG District 5
  • Description:
    Kokosing Industrial will commence dredge operations on or about September 16, 2025, in the Elizabeth River; pertaining to the Lambert Bend to Paradise Creek and...
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  • Lat / Lon: N 36° 52.299' / W 076° 19.895'

VA: AICW, Mile 3.0 Southern Branch Elizabeth River, Dredging

  • Date Reported: Sep 4, 2025
  • Reporter: Waterway Guide Staff
  • Source: USCG District 5
  • Description:
     Kokosing Industrial will commence dredge operations on or about September 16, 2025, in the Elizabeth River; pertaining to the Lambert Bend to Paradise Creek and...
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  • Lat / Lon: N 36° 48.203' / W 076° 17.473'

MI: Lake Michigan - Ludington, Temporary Regulated Navigation Zones

  • Date Reported: Sep 4, 2025
  • Reporter: Waterway Guide Staff
  • Source: USCG District 9
  • Description:
    Due to hazardous conditions resulting from increased vessel traffic congestion, The Coast Guard will activate the Regulated Navigation Area covering all navigable waters of Ludington...
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  • Lat / Lon: N 43° 57.154' / W 086° 27.974'

FL: GIWW, Mile 295.5 EHL, DuPont (SR30/US HWY 98) Bridge, Construction and Demolition

  • Date Reported: Aug 28, 2025
  • Reporter: Waterway Guide Staff
  • Source: USCG District 8
  • Description:
    The DuPont (SR30/US HWY 98) Bridge crossing the GIWW at Mile 295.5, EHL, will undergo construction and demolition. Work will begin September 10, 2025 and...
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  • Lat / Lon: N 30° 06.287' / W 085° 36.486'

NC: AICW, Near Coinjock, Light 118, Structure Destroyed

  • Date Reported: Aug 21, 2025
  • Reporter: Waterway Guide Staff
  • Source: USCG District 5
  • Description:
    Please submit a review if corrected.
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  • Lat / Lon: N 36° 23.543' / W 075° 57.175'

ON: North Channel, Hazard

  • Date Reported: Aug 16, 2025
  • Reporter: Laurie Faraone
  • Source: User
  • Description:
    Just outside the green marker leaving Blind River marina there is a large pole/piling/tree poking out of the water in 14' - it does not...
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  • Lat / Lon: N 46° 10.265' / W 082° 57.954'

GA: Hell Gate, Green 87 is missing

  • Date Reported: Aug 8, 2025
  • Reporter: Pam Nelson
  • Source: User
  • Description:
    G 87 at Hell Gate is missing
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  • Lat / Lon: N 31° 52.297' / W 081° 04.485'

VA: Rappahannock River, Tappahannock Area, Wreck

  • Date Reported: Aug 6, 2025
  • Reporter: Waterway Guide Staff
  • Source: USCG District 5
  • Description:
    A potential Hazard to Navigation has been identified in the Rappahannock River near Hoskins Creek in approximate position 37-55-18.538N, 076-50-19.878W. The WWII wreck is charted...
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  • Lat / Lon: N 37° 55.310' / W 076° 50.332'

FL: Apalachicola River Entrance, Hazards To Navigation/Obstructions

  • Date Reported: Jul 31, 2025
  • Reporter: Waterway Guide Staff
  • Source: USCG District 8
  • Description:
    Two unmarked and submerged red and green buoys have been reported on the Apalachicola River near approximate position 30-33-06.00N 084-58-29.64W. Mariners are urged to transit...
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  • Lat / Lon: N 30° 33.098' / W 084° 58.494'

NC: Onslow Beach Swing Bridge, MM 240.7 AICW, Demolition Activities

  • Date Reported: Jul 31, 2025
  • Reporter: Waterway Guide Staff
  • Source: USCG District 5
  • Description:
    Mariners are advised that the Onslow Beach Swing Bridge, located across the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AIWW) at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, will be undergoing demolition...
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  • Lat / Lon: N 34° 34.390' / W 077° 16.283'

Sunken wreck near Tahiti Beach

  • Date Reported: Jul 3, 2025
  • Reporter: Addison Chan
  • Source: User
  • Description:
    A large catamaran caught fire and sank in this location. The hull is completely submerged but the Hope Town Volunteer Fire Dept have marked the...
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  • Lat / Lon: N 26° 30.281' / W 076° 59.066'