4500 meter cable with orange float adrift vicinity 38-23S 148-34E
Bass Strait · HYDROPAC 1060/02
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2002-06-14 00:00Z
This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · RCC AUSTRALIA 36/02 POR EGC#1092 071905Z JUN 02. Issued 2002-06-07 21:15Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Bass Strait. The parsed report position is -38.383, 148.567. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2002-06-07 21:15Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- RCC AUSTRALIA 36/02 POR EGC#1092 071905Z JUN 02
- issued by
- RCC AUSTRALIA
- sea
- Bass Strait
- position
- -38.383, 148.567
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. 4500 METER CABLE WITH ORANGE FLOAT ADRIFT VICINITY 38-23S 148-34E. REPORTS TO RCC AUSTRALIA, TELEX: 7162025, PHONE: 612 6230 6811. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 14 JUN.
Reading this warning
- Adrift
- Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
- 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.
- RCC / JRCC (Rescue Coordination Centre)
- The centre that organises search and rescue in its region; warnings ask ships to send their reports there.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · other warnings
28 within 180 nm since 1998 · 2 in the last 12 months · 1 listed in force now
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.
- 8 virtual AIS navigation marks in an area bounded by 38-23S to 38-37S and 148-25E to 148-37E inoperative2026-09-18
- 8 X 6M yellow buoys FL3 deployed within 1.5NM 39-50.14 s 145-48.24 e 2.5NM clearance requested2026-08-17
- S/V dire straits, three persons abandoning ship in 39-10.43S 145-15.15E2017-03-25
- Fishing gear, marked by buoys, abandoned in 37-44.05S 149-35.04E2015-12-24
- Pyrotechnics exercises 311130Z to 311230Z dec within 500 yards of 37-09.6S 150-19.8E2014-12-31
- Eight meter vessel reported on fire in 36-14.2S 150-30.1E at 160017Z oct2013-10-16
Month of issue in the collected archive
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 2026-10-03 18:40Z; 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.