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Large fish traps adrift in: a. 08-26.72S 126-13.54E at 050348Z dec

Banda Sea · HYDROPAC 1744/00

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2000-12-13 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) · DTN 122/00 060020Z DEC 00. Issued 2000-12-06 01:15Z. 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
Banda Sea. The parsed report position is -8.427, 126.349. 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

Current notices and reporting history in the Banda Sea →

issued
2000-12-06 01:15Z
status
Archived notice
authority
DTN 122/00 060020Z DEC 00
issued by
DTN
sea
Banda Sea
position
-8.427, 126.349
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. LARGE FISH TRAPS ADRIFT IN:
   A. 08-26.72S 126-13.54E AT 050348Z DEC.
   B. 08-26.49S 126-15.50E AT 050400Z DEC.
   C. 08-26.32S 126-16.78E AT 050407Z DEC.
   D. 08-24.25S 126-28.42E AT 050515Z DEC.
   E. 08-24.40S 126-30.33E AT 050525Z DEC.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1728/00.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 13 DEC.

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.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · other warnings

5 within 180 nm since 2000 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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Month of issue in the collected archive

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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

21 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 01:49Z; 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.