12 meter long pontoon adrift in 39-35.2S 145-43.8E at 202310Z jul
Bass Strait · HYDROPAC 1384/08
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2008-07-29 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) · SEA SAFETY 49/08 210121Z JUL 08.. Issued 2008-07-22 04:47Z. 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 -39.587, 145.730. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2008-07-22 04:47Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 49/08 210121Z JUL 08.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Bass Strait
- position
- -39.587, 145.730
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. 12 METER LONG PONTOON ADRIFT IN 39-35.2S 145-43.8E AT 202310Z JUL. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 29 JUL.
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.
- 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
34 within 180 nm since 1998 · 4 in the last 12 months · 2 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
- 12 X 6M yellow surface bouys, fl white 3S depolyed within 1.5NM of position 38-46.00S 142-48.80E2026-06-29
- Special purpose vessel dependable / kdej / 367137000 conducting cable lay operations 10NM either side of…2026-05-30
- S/V dire straits, three persons abandoning ship in 39-10.43S 145-15.15E2017-03-25
- Aircraft ditching in 38-15.5S 144-11.0E at 070913Z sep2016-09-07
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 samson explorer / VNW5773 / 503096000 conducting underwater operations in an area…Surveys · 15.3 nm
- Great australian bightCable ops · 116.5 nm
- Special purpose vessel dependable / kdej / 367137000 conducting cable lay operations 10NM either side of…Other · 116.5 nm
- Drill rig valaris 107/A8GS5 in position 38-17.79S 147-40.57E 2.5 nm clearance requestedSurveys · 119.4 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
23 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 07:24Z; 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.