Six meter vessel partially submerged in 16-29.19S 145-40.93E at 200558Z apr
Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 1074/22
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-07-28 08:17Z
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) · SEA SAFETY 26/22 200615Z APR 22.. Issued 2022-04-20 09:11Z. 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
- Coral Sea. The parsed report position is -16.486, 145.682. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2022-04-20 09:11Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 26/22 200615Z APR 22.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -16.486, 145.682
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CORAL SEA. AUSTRALIA-NORTHEAST COAST. DNC 05. SIX METER VESSEL PARTIALLY SUBMERGED IN 16-29.19S 145-40.93E AT 200558Z APR.
Reading this warning
- DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
- A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
- Semi-submerged
- Floating at or just below the surface, so hard to see by eye or radar.
- 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.
- Date-time group (DTG)
- A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
Collected reports in this area · other warnings
15 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 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.
- 15 meter fishing net in 16-26.86S 145-35.64E at 222330Z mar2021-03-23
- 20 meter long tree adrift in vicinity 17-52.0S 146-13.0E at 110500Z feb2020-02-11
- Vessel, in need of assistance between port douglas (16-29-01S 145-27-55E) and cooktown (15-28-09S 145-15-06E)2016-06-14
- Pith reef light 18-13.2S 147-01.4E range increased to 15 miles2015-04-15
- Red flare sighted in 15-44S 145-54E at 051038Z nov2013-11-05
- Five meter pontoon adrift in 16-08.9S 145-48.2E at 170826Z apr2012-04-17
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
No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.
Worldwide in the collected sources
23 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 03:25Z; 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.