Two mile long fishing line adrift in 22-32S 055-45E
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 2056/10
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2010-10-08 14:30Z
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) · NAVAREA VII 212/10 051250Z OCT 10.. Issued 2010-10-05 14:29Z. 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
- Indian Ocean. The parsed report position is -22.533, 55.750. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2010-10-05 14:29Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2010-10-08 14:30Z
- authority
- NAVAREA VII 212/10 051250Z OCT 10.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- -22.533, 55.750
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN. MASCARENE ISLAND. 1. TWO MILE LONG FISHING LINE ADRIFT IN 22-32S 055-45E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 081430Z OCT.
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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · drifting objects
33 within 180 nm since 2010 · 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.
- Fishing gear, marked by orange floats, adrift in 20-39.00S 055-16.00E at 091200Z apr2024-04-10
- Dcp buoy adrift in vicinity 22-09.50S 055-17.90E2023-03-02
- Buoy, yellow, adrift in 21-25.6S 055-08.5E2022-02-10
- Wooden debris adrift in 21-10.50S 055-12.33E on 29 mar 212021-03-29
- Fishing gear with floats adrift in 21-44S 055-35E on 20 jan2021-01-21
- 1600 meter long cable with orange and yellow buoys adrift in 21-32.25S 055-54.50E2020-12-04
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
2 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 15:54Z; 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.