Lighted oceanographic buoy, white, with one orange buoy and a string of white buoys, temporarily established…
Timor Sea · HYDROPAC 1728/00
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2000-12-06 01:15Z
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) · RCC AUSTRALIA DTN #119/00 262223Z NOV 00. Issued 2000-11-28 12:18Z. 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 -9.608, 128.123. 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
- Large white buoy with associated 50 meter string of lighted white buoys on each side in 09-336.5S 128-07.4Ecancelled by this notice
- Large fish traps adrift in: a. 08-26.72S 126-13.54E at 050348Z declater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2000-11-28 12:18Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- RCC AUSTRALIA DTN #119/00 262223Z NOV 00
- issued by
- RCC AUSTRALIA DTN
- sea
- Timor Sea
- position
- -9.608, 128.123
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CHART 73000 (9TH ED). 1. LIGHTED OCEANOGRAPHIC BUOY, WHITE, WITH ONE ORANGE BUOY AND A STRING OF WHITE BUOYS, TEMPORARILY ESTABLISHED IN 09-36.5S 128-07.4E. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1723/00.
Reading this warning
- Chart reference
- The number of the nautical chart on which the reported position lies.
- Scientific mooring
- Instruments anchored to the seabed and held up by floats, sometimes just below the surface, left for months to measure the ocean.
- 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · survey operations
22 within 180 nm since 2000 · 3 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.
- Underwater operations in progress until further notice by M/V reach remote 2 in area bound by 11-13.00S…2026-09-05
- 21 yellow lightbuoys, fl y 1.5 sec, with scientific equipment attached, deployed in an area bounded by…2026-05-28
- Underwater operations in progress until further notice by M/V skandi hercules in 10-36.90S 125-59.10E2025-12-20
- Underwater operations in progress until further notice by M/V bhagwan dryden in 10-36.50S 125-59.80E2025-05-12
- Underwater operations in progress until further notice by M/V sapura constructor in 10-35.41S 125-59.26E2025-02-03
- Underwater operations in progress until further notice by M/V seven pegasus in 09-49.26S 130-16.14E2024-11-15
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
55 survey operations listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 00:29Z; source collection times vary.
Surveys
Hydrographic and scientific survey vessels, often towing long arrays. All current survey operations →
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.