500 meter long orange boom adrift in 15-04.4N 119-08.6E at 260100Z jul
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 2447/15
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2015-07-29 06:10Z
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) · NAVAREA XI 543/15 260355Z JUL 15.. Issued 2015-07-26 06:10Z. 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 China Sea. The parsed report position is 15.073, 119.143. 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 China Sea →
- issued
- 2015-07-26 06:10Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2015-07-29 06:10Z
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 543/15 260355Z JUL 15.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 15.073, 119.143
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTH CHINA SEA. PHILIPPINES. DNC 11, DNC 23. 1. 500 METER LONG ORANGE BOOM ADRIFT IN 15-04.4N 119-08.6E AT 260100Z JUL. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 290610Z JUL 15.
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.
Collected reports in this area · other warnings
7 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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.
- 200 meter long orange and black hose adrift vicinity 17-12.7N 117-39.0E at 140215Z aug2015-08-14
- South china sea2015-07-11
- Two persons abandoned 24 foot M/V sunny, orange hull, in 16-43.5N 118-32.7E2008-05-12
- Bombing exercises: a. 200200Z to 200500Z jun within 25 miles of trackline between 16-48N 116-43E and 17-23N…2002-06-19
- Hydrographic operations 161200Z to 171200Z mar in area bound by 20-20N 116-00E, 20-20N 120-30E, 18-50N…2000-03-15
- Hydrographic operations 160001Z to 170001Z mar in area bound by 20-20N 116-00E, 20-20N 120-30E, 18-50N…2000-03-14
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
- Manira NAVTEX station, j, 14-30.3N 121-03.9E, inoperativeNav aids · 116.7 nm
- Cape santiago light, 13-46.32N 120-39.18E, F2614, extingushedNav aids · 117.5 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
23 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-29 07:17Z; 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.