Ropes adrift in 17-09.97S 150-26.71W
South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 2181/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-07-07 17:30Z
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) · AVURNAV PAPEETE 28/23 041724Z JUL 23.. Issued 2023-07-04 17:29Z. 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
- South Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is -17.166, -150.445. 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 South Pacific Ocean →
- issued
- 2023-07-04 17:29Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-07-07 17:30Z
- authority
- AVURNAV PAPEETE 28/23 041724Z JUL 23.
- issued by
- AVURNAV PAPEETE
- sea
- South Pacific Ocean
- position
- -17.166, -150.445
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTH PACIFIC. ILES DE LA SOCIETE. DNC 06. 1. ROPES ADRIFT IN 17-09.97S 150-26.71W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 071730Z JUL 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.
- 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 · other warnings
13 within 180 nm since 2004 · 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.
- Tree trunks, six meters long, adrift in vicinity 17-18.00S 149-49.00W at 270600Z apr2024-04-27
- 10 meter tree branch adrift in vicinity 17-18.00S 149-27.90W at 121800Z2024-01-12
- Ten meter tree trunks adrift in 17-24.90S 149-35.10W at 070217Z jan2024-01-07
- Vessel requesting assistance in 17-29.00S 151-27.00W2022-09-19
- Cables, pipes and ropes entangled and adrift in area within several hundred meters of 17-04.80S 150-18.60W…2022-05-29
- 300 meter long cable and rope adrift in vicinity 17-04.00S 149-35.00W at 211600Z may2022-05-21
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
- Pointe aroa light 17-28.40S 149-46.50W unlitNav aids · 42.6 nm
- Pointe venus light 17-29.70S 149-29.66W unlitNav aids · 58 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
23 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-30 11:53Z; 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.