Debris

300 meter cable attatched to one and a half meter yellow buoy adrift in 38-46S 148-19E at 270030Z nov

Bass Strait · HYDROPAC 1996/05

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2005-12-04 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) · RCC AUSTRALIA 270115Z NOV 05.. Issued 2005-11-27 01:47Z. 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 -38.767, 148.317. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Bass Strait →

issued
2005-11-27 01:47Z
status
Archived notice
authority
RCC AUSTRALIA 270115Z NOV 05.
issued by
RCC AUSTRALIA
sea
Bass Strait
position
-38.767, 148.317
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. 300 METER CABLE ATTATCHED TO
   ONE AND A HALF METER YELLOW BUOY
   ADRIFT IN 38-46S 148-19E AT 270030Z NOV.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 04 DEC.

Reading this warning

Off station / missing buoy
A buoy that is not in its charted position — dragged, damaged, missing or removed.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · drifting objects

4 within 180 nm since 2003 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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20

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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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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

Worldwide in the collected sources

2 drifting objects listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 05:35Z; 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.