15 meter vessel, 110 persons on board, disabled and taking on water in bayu undan gas field (11-00S 126-40E)
Timor Sea · HYDROPAC 1261/13
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2013-05-04 10:31Z
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) · AUSSAR 3025/13 040641Z MAY 13.. Issued 2013-05-04 07:33Z. 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 -11.000, 126.667. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2013-05-04 07:33Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- AUSSAR 3025/13 040641Z MAY 13.
- issued by
- AUSSAR
- sea
- Timor Sea
- position
- -11.000, 126.667
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
TIMOR SEA. 15 METER VESSEL, 110 PERSONS ON BOARD, DISABLED AND TAKING ON WATER IN BAYU UNDAN GAS FIELD (11-00S 126-40E). VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO RCC AUSTRALIA, PHONE: 612 6230 6811, FAX: 612 6230 6868, E-MAIL: RCCAUS@AMSA.GOV.AU.
Reading this warning
- Persons on board (POB)
- The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.
- 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.
- Keep a sharp lookout
- A request to every ship in the area to watch for the vessel, people or object described.
- Assist if possible
- The second half of the standard rescue request: ships able to help are asked to do so.
- RCC / JRCC (Rescue Coordination Centre)
- The centre that organises search and rescue in its region; warnings ask ships to send their reports there.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
62 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.
- Eight meter F/V adrift, four persons on board, in 12-21.18S 124-55.17E at 060324Z oct2022-10-06
- F/V, one person on board, unreported2022-08-10
- Derelict 25 meter F/V, capsized and adrift in vicinity 09-40.6S 128-41.8E at 100415Z nov2021-11-10
- Derelict 30 meter F/V capsized and adrift in 09-28.1S 127-49.4E at 060358Z nov2021-11-06
- Derelict ten meter F/V capsized and adrift in 09-15.0S 128-28.1E at 040343Z nov2021-11-04
- Derelict ten meter F/V capsized and adrift in 09-06.6S 128-51.2E at 030141Z nov2021-11-03
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
0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 08:07Z; source collection times vary.
Incidents
Search-and-rescue broadcasts, published only once a case has been closed for 30 days: groundings, sinkings, capsizes, fires, man overboard, overdue vessels. Nothing here is live. All current distress & casualty cases (archived) →
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.