1000 meter long fishing net adrift in 10-47S 137-20E at 080223Z may
Arafura Sea · HYDROPAC 1389/11
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2011-05-11 05:00Z
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 85/11 080315Z MAY 11 - PVWA 08 MAY 11.. Issued 2011-05-08 05:14Z. 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
- Arafura Sea. The parsed report position is -10.783, 137.333. 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
- 15 meter S/V coyote, two persons on board, overdue galapagos islands (00-40.0S 090-33.0W) to marquesas…cancelled by this notice
- Six meter S/V edrien, red hull, unreportedcancelled by this notice
- issued
- 2011-05-08 05:14Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2011-05-11 05:00Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 85/11 080315Z MAY 11 - PVWA 08 MAY 11.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Arafura Sea
- position
- -10.783, 137.333
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
AUSTRALIA-NORTH COAST. ARAFURA SEA. 1. 1000 METER LONG FISHING NET ADRIFT IN 10-47S 137-20E AT 080223Z MAY. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1333/11(22,83) AND 1334/11(22). 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 110500Z MAY.
Reading this warning
- Fish aggregating device (FAD)
- Floating rafts, nets and lines used by fishing fleets — hazards to propellers when they are adrift or unlit.
- 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
13 within 180 nm since 2006 · 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.
- Four mooring buoys adrift in vicinity 11-28S 139-18E at 100952Z dec2021-12-10
- Buoy with rope adrift in vicinity 09-49.1S 137-06.6E at 090805Z mar2021-03-09
- 30 meter long rope with buoy adrift in 09-46.9S 135-54.1E at 120428Z feb2021-02-12
- 30 meter long fishing net adrift in 10-07.5S 135-23.2E at 210838Z oct2020-10-21
- 50 meter long net adrift in 09-58.6S 136-11.4E at 040424Z jan2020-01-04
- Fishing net adrift in 09-54.5S 136-28.5E at 070330Z jul2017-07-07
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
No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.
Worldwide in the collected sources
3 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 00:53Z; 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.