Incidents · fire

Vessel on fire and adrift in 11-30.2S 123-54.7E at 051102Z sep

Timor Sea · HYDROPAC 2542/12

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2012-09-08 09:39Z

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 600/12 051410 SEP 12.. Issued 2012-09-05 16:36Z. 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: Timor Sea. The parsed report position is -11.503, 123.912. 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 Timor Sea →

issued: 2012-09-05 16:36Z
status: Archived notice
authority: NAVAREA XI 600/12 051410 SEP 12.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea: Timor Sea
position: -11.503, 123.912
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

TIMOR SEA.
VESSEL ON FIRE AND ADRIFT IN 11-30.2S 123-54.7E
AT 051102Z SEP. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED
TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.
REPORTS TO ANY COASTAL RADIO STATION.

Reading this warning

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.
Keep a sharp lookout: A request to every ship in the area to watch for the vessel, people or object described.
Assist if possible: The second half of the standard rescue request: ships able to help are asked to do so.

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Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)

65 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

Underwater operations in progress until further notice by M/V safe boreas in area bound by 12-54.90S…Surveys · 93.9 nm
Special purpose vessel safe boreas 565905000 supporting underwater operations in an area bounded by…Surveys · 93.9 nm
Special purpose vessel shark 1/T2DT6/572762220 conducting hydrographic survey in an area bounded by 11-30.00…Surveys · 99.7 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 08:06Z; source collection times vary.

Incidents

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