Eight meter hull adrift in vicinity 10-18.30S 141-39.40E at 020815Z jan
Arafura Sea · HYDROPAC 20/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-01-05 09:35Z
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 1/23 020925Z JAN 23.. Issued 2023-01-02 09:37Z. 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 -10.305, 141.657. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2023-01-02 09:37Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-01-05 09:35Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 1/23 020925Z JAN 23.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Arafura Sea
- position
- -10.305, 141.657
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
ARAFURA SEA. AUSTRALIA. DNC 05. 1. EIGHT METER HULL ADRIFT IN VICINITY 10-18.30S 141-39.40E AT 020815Z JAN. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 050935Z JAN 23.
Reading this warning
- DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
- A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · other warnings
68 within 180 nm since 1999 · 4 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.
- Nardana patches current meter in position 10-30.29S 142-14.63E unreliable2026-09-24
- Nardana patches current meter in position 10-30.29S 142-14.63E inoperative2026-08-31
- Booby island (weather station) in position 10-36.15S 141-54.61E inoperative2026-08-21
- Booby island (tide gauge) in position 10-36.15S 141-54.61E inoperative2026-08-21
- Twin island light 10-27.78S 142-26.89E at reduced intensity2024-04-03
- S/V follow through caught in fish nets in 08-41.95S 140-23.37E at 150900Z nov2023-11-15
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
- Derelict ten meter vessel adrift in 11-55.02S 141-54.27E at 020629Z augDerelicts · 97.9 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
23 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 07:16Z; 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.