Four meter yellow mooring buoy adrift 12-00.53S 126-46.96E at 100345Z apr
Timor Sea · HYDROPAC 1121/11
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2011-04-13 20:47Z
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 63/11 100752Z APR 11 - JRCC HONOLULU 102005Z APR 11.. Issued 2011-04-10 21:05Z. 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
- Timor Sea. The parsed report position is -12.009, 126.783. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 36-50.7N 167-30.8E at 100641Z aprcancelled by this notice
- issued
- 2011-04-10 21:05Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2011-04-13 20:47Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 63/11 100752Z APR 11 - JRCC HONOLULU 102005Z APR 11.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Timor Sea
- position
- -12.009, 126.783
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
AUSTRALIA-NORTH COAST. 1. FOUR METER YELLOW MOORING BUOY ADRIFT 12-00.53S 126-46.96E AT 100345Z APR. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1115/11(19,97) SIGNAL CEASED. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 132047Z APR.
Reading this warning
- Off station / missing buoy
- A buoy that is not in its charted position — dragged, damaged, missing or removed.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROPAC
- The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · drifting objects
44 within 180 nm since 2001 · 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.
- Eight meter log adrift in vicinity 12-23.33S 127-20.37E at 111011Z mar2023-03-11
- Fishing gear with ropes adrift in vicinity 12-19.61S 124-24.85E at 170616Z jan2023-01-17
- Large orange cylindrical object with rope adrift in vicinity 12-49.00S 123-57.00E at 260427Z jul2022-07-26
- Large orange cylindrical object with rope adrift in vicinity 13-10.46S 123-59.26E at 220558Z jul2022-07-22
- Large orange cylindrical object with rope adrift in vicinity 13-20.30S 124-04.70E at 210446Z jul2022-07-21
- 300 meter long net adrift in 12-39.6S 124-32.7E at 262300Z mar2022-03-28
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
2 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 20:22Z; source collection times vary.
Debris
Logs, buoys, mooring gear and other objects adrift. All current drifting objects →
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.