Fishing net marked by flashing white and red light and by black flag adrift in vicinity 09-42.70S 141-22.50E…
Arafura Sea · HYDROPAC 2240/22
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2022-08-18 00:26Z
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 71/22 150022Z AUG 22.. Issued 2022-08-15 00:34Z. 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 -9.712, 141.375. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2022-08-15 00:34Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2022-08-18 00:26Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 71/22 150022Z AUG 22.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Arafura Sea
- position
- -9.712, 141.375
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
ARAFURA SEA. PAPUA NEW GUINEA. DNC 05. 1. FISHING NET MARKED BY FLASHING WHITE AND RED LIGHT AND BY BLACK FLAG ADRIFT IN VICINITY 09-42.70S 141-22.50E AT 142347Z AUG. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 180026Z AUG 22.
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.
- Fish aggregating device (FAD)
- Floating rafts, nets and lines used by fishing fleets — hazards to propellers when they are adrift or unlit.
- 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
64 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
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 2026-10-02 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.