Six meter long metal drum adrift in 12-12.2S 125-05.4E at 110935Z apr
Timor Sea · HYDROPAC 1224/15
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2015-04-14 11:38Z
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 28/15 111028Z APR 15.. Issued 2015-04-11 11:38Z. 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 -12.203, 125.090. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2015-04-11 11:38Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2015-04-14 11:38Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 28/15 111028Z APR 15.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Timor Sea
- position
- -12.203, 125.090
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
TIMOR SEA. DNC 04. 1. SIX METER LONG METAL DRUM ADRIFT IN 12-12.2S 125-05.4E AT 110935Z APR. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 141138Z APR 15.
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.
- 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.
- 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
15 within 180 nm since 1999 · 1 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.
- Unmanned surface vessel reach remote 2 / vkcc / 503189810 conducting subsea operations in an area bound by…2026-09-05
- Large tree adrift in vicinity 12-39.40S 122-29.23E at 150756Z may2023-05-15
- Numerous fads with ten meter long trailing rope adrift in area within ten miles of 12-35S 122-38E at 180700…2022-01-18
- Fishing net, marked by buoys, abandoned in vicinity 12-35.7S 125-33.9E at 030458Z nov2021-11-03
- Fishing net in vicinity 12-41.49S 123-25.42E at 130313Z oct2021-10-13
- 15 meter F/V, blue hull, anchored and requesting assistance in 11-40.35S 125-22.30E2021-07-20
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
- Special purpose vessel shark 1/T2DT6/572762220 conducting hydrographic survey in an area bounded by 11-30.00…Surveys · 31.5 nm
- Underwater operations in progress until further notice by M/V safe boreas in area bound by 12-54.90S…Surveys · 56.9 nm
- Special purpose vessel safe boreas 565905000 supporting underwater operations in an area bounded by…Surveys · 56.9 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
21 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 19:21Z; 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.