Hazard spot

The hazard spots on the cruising area map

One hundred and seventeen places the big claims come from: storm regions, narrows, shallows, waters with heavy traffic. Each with what happens there and what it means for the policy.

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Tropical cyclones

13 spots

Caribbean: hurricane season Florida and Bahamas South Pacific Coral Sea Bay of Bengal Gulf of Mexico Mozambique Channel Mascarenes and Réunion Andaman Sea and Nicobars South China Sea Philippines and Luzon Strait Southern coast of Japan Vanuatu and New Caledonia

Severe storms

13 spots

Biscay: storm season North Sea Cape Horn: storm zone Bay of Lübeck Irish Sea and St Georges Channel Skagerrak and Kattegat Norwegian coast at Stad Cabo Frio and the coast off Rio Drake Passage Arabian Sea in the southwest monsoon Bass Strait Tasman Sea Southern Ocean

Strong katabatic winds

15 spots

Gulf of Lion Northern Adriatic Aegean Lake Constance, Obersee Lake Chiemsee Lake Starnberg and Ammersee Cape St Vincent Strait of Bonifacio Strait of Otranto Kvarner Bay and Velebit Channel Karpathos Strait Gulf of Tehuantepec Gulf of Papagayo Strait of Magellan and Beagle Channel Canary passage and Western Sahara

Strong current and cross seas

16 spots

Strait of Gibraltar Cape of Good Hope Lower Elbe and estuary Middle Rhine and gorge section Upper Rhine at Karlsruhe Oosterschelde and Zeeland Alderney Race and Channel Islands Raz de Sein and Chenal du Four Pentland Firth Lofoten and Moskstraumen Strait of Messina Cape Hatteras Gulf Stream off Florida Agulhas Current and Wild Coast East China Sea and Kuroshio Cook Strait

Piracy

8 spots

Gulf of Aden Gulf of Guinea Southern Caribbean off Venezuela Windward Passage and Haiti Gulf of Guayaquil Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Coast off Somalia Sulu Sea and Celebes Sea

Shallows and grounding

18 spots

Greifswald Bodden and Strelasund Szczecin Lagoon North Frisian Wadden Sea East Frisian tidal inlets Müritz and the small lakes Untersee and Seerhein Steinhuder Meer Lusatian and Leipzig mining lakes IJsselmeer and Wadden Sea Thames Estuary Swedish and Finnish skerries Gulf of Honduras and Mosquito Coast Río de la Plata Cap Blanc and Mauritania Chagos and Maldive banks Torres Strait Great Barrier Reef Tuamotu Archipelago

Flooding and debris

3 spots

Moselle at Koblenz Main at Aschaffenburg Danube at Regensburg and Passau

Locks and narrows

4 spots

Main-Danube Canal: locks Mittelland Canal Elbe-Havel waterway Corinth Canal and Gulf of Patras

Drifting ice

5 spots

Gulf of Finland Gulf of Bothnia Labrador Sea and Denmark Strait Sea of Okhotsk Bering Strait

Fog and loss of visibility

2 spots

Bay of Fundy and Nova Scotia Grand Banks of Newfoundland