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

Severe storms

13 spots

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

Heavy shipping traffic

20 spots

English Channel, Hazard spot Strait of Malacca, Hazard spot Elbe at Hamburg, Hazard spot Kiel Canal, Hazard spot Kiel Fjord: commercial traffic, Hazard spot Fehmarn Belt, Hazard spot Jade and Weser off Wilhelmshaven, Hazard spot Rhine at Duisburg and Cologne, Hazard spot Berlin city waterways, Hazard spot Rotterdam and Nieuwe Waterweg, Hazard spot Strait of Dover, Hazard spot Cape Finisterre, Hazard spot Great Belt and Öresund, Hazard spot Gulf of Iskenderun, Hazard spot Dardanelles, Hazard spot Suez Canal: traffic, Hazard spot Bay of Panama, Hazard spot Strait of Hormuz, Hazard spot Sunda Strait and Java Sea, Hazard spot Taiwan Strait, Hazard spot

Strong katabatic winds

15 spots

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

Strong current and cross seas

16 spots

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

Piracy

8 spots

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

Shallows and grounding

18 spots

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

Flooding and debris

3 spots

Moselle at Koblenz, Hazard spot Main at Aschaffenburg, Hazard spot Danube at Regensburg and Passau, Hazard spot

Locks and narrows

4 spots

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

Drifting ice

5 spots

Gulf of Finland, Hazard spot Gulf of Bothnia, Hazard spot Labrador Sea and Denmark Strait, Hazard spot Sea of Okhotsk, Hazard spot Bering Strait, Hazard spot

Fog and loss of visibility

2 spots

Bay of Fundy and Nova Scotia, Hazard spot Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Hazard spot

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