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Two platforms with submerged steel frames adrift in vicinity of 41-12.40S 178-52.27E at 121200Z jul

South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 2289/23

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2023-07-16 01:10Z

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) · CNW 166/23 130011Z JUL 23.. Issued 2023-07-13 01:13Z. 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 -41.207, 178.871. 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
2023-07-13 01:13Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2023-07-16 01:10Z
authority
CNW 166/23 130011Z JUL 23.
issued by
CNW
sea
South Pacific Ocean
position
-41.207, 178.871
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN SOUTH PACIFIC.
NEW ZEALAND.
DNC 06.
1. TWO PLATFORMS WITH SUBMERGED STEEL FRAMES
   ADRIFT IN VICINITY OF
   41-12.40S 178-52.27E AT 121200Z JUL.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 160110Z 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.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · other warnings

15 within 180 nm since 2000 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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 10:14Z; source collection times vary.

Other

Everything the classifier did not place elsewhere. All current other warnings →

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