A fish aggregating device is temporarily anchored at 26-36.55S 153-30.16E in the Coral Sea, Australia, as of 21 July 05:06 UTC.
Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 2089/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-08-21 15:40Z
This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-07-21 08:48Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-23 13:02Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Coral Sea. The parsed report position is -26.609, 153.503. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2026-07-21 08:48Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -26.609, 153.503
- nearest port
- Brisbane · 50 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
CORAL SEA. AUSTRALIA. FAD TEMPORARILY ANCHORED IN 26-36.55S 153-30.16E AT 210506Z JUL.
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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · other warnings
19 within 180 nm since 1999 · 1 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 vessel sunk in 27-53.80S 153-38.50E2023-04-17
- Eight meter concrete pontoon adrift in 26-31.3S 153-26.6E at 232200Z mar2022-03-24
- Two meter mooring with 200 meter long rope with floats adrift in vicinity 29-05.81S 154-56.75E at 030200Z dec2021-12-03
- Austrailia-east coast DNC 052021-11-19
- Fishing gear with floats abandoned in vicinity 24-42.19S 153-35.29E2021-08-12
- Fisherman missing in vicinity 24-45.02S 152-37.36E vessels in vicinity requested to keep a sharp lookout,…2019-11-23
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
21 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-26 05:25Z; 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.