Fishing net with floats adrift in 12-18.5S 127-47.6E
Timor Sea · HYDROPAC 1768/01
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2001-11-09 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) · DANGER TO NAVIGATION 127/01 021155Z NOV 01. Issued 2001-11-02 15:03Z. 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 -12.308, 127.793. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2001-11-02 15:03Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- DANGER TO NAVIGATION 127/01 021155Z NOV 01
- issued by
- DANGER TO NAVIGATION
- sea
- Timor Sea
- position
- -12.308, 127.793
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. FISHING NET WITH FLOATS ADRIFT IN 12-18.5S 127-47.6E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 09 NOV.
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.
- 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
43 within 180 nm since 2001 · 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 log adrift in vicinity 12-23.33S 127-20.37E at 111011Z mar2023-03-11
- Fishing net abandoned and adrift in vicinity 10-25S 130-01E at 030630Z dec2021-12-03
- 20 meter fishing net adrift in 12-37.80S 125-44.33E at 070702Z nov2021-11-07
- Fishing net, marked by buoys, abandoned and adrift in vicinity 12-32.18S 125-25.67E at 010400Z nov2021-11-01
- Fad with 100 meter rope adrift in 10-58.01S 127-21.55E at 140236Z apr2021-04-14
- Fad with 50 meter rope adrift in 10-58.26S 127-20.16E at 130335Z apr2021-04-13
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
2 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 06:29Z; 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.