Container partially submerged and adrift in 34-45S 151-33E at 080500Z jul
Tasman Sea · HYDROPAC 2021/20
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2020-07-11 09:08Z
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 79/20 080656Z JUL 20.. Issued 2020-07-08 09:08Z. 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
- Tasman Sea. The parsed report position is -34.750, 151.550. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2020-07-08 09:08Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2020-07-11 09:08Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 79/20 080656Z JUL 20.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Tasman Sea
- position
- -34.750, 151.550
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
TASMAN SEA. AUSTRALIA-EAST COAST. DNC 05. 1. CONTAINER PARTIALLY SUBMERGED AND ADRIFT IN 34-45S 151-33E AT 080500Z JUL. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 110908Z JUL 20.
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.
- Lost containers
- Shipping containers lost overboard, reported floating or semi-submerged, often in groups after a single incident.
- Semi-submerged
- Floating at or just below the surface, so hard to see by eye or radar.
- 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
27 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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.
- Two meter mooring with 200 meter long line with floats adrift in 35-08.5S 153-26.3E at 010002Z jan2022-01-01
- Two meter mooring with 200 meter line of floats, adrift in 35-20.4S 151-53.0E at 260006Z dec 212021-12-26
- Two meter mooring with 200 meter line of floats, adrift in 34-10.6S 152-59.0E at 250001Z dec 212021-12-25
- Two meter mooring with 200 meter long line with floats adrift in vicinity 33-10.68S 153-52.65E at 230005Z dec2021-12-23
- Pyrotechnics exercises 311130Z to 311230Z dec within 500 yards of 37-09.6S 150-19.8E2014-12-31
- Numerous flares reported in 32-18.2S 152-44.6E2014-10-02
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
23 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-29 22:40Z; 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.