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200 meter long orange and black hose adrift vicinity 17-12.7N 117-39.0E at 140215Z aug

South China Sea · HYDROPAC 2680/15

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2015-08-17 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 602/15 140508Z AUG 15.. Issued 2015-08-14 06:07Z. 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 17.212, 117.650. 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: 2015-08-14 06:07Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2015-08-17 06:10Z
authority: NAVAREA XI 602/15 140508Z AUG 15.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea: South China Sea
position: 17.212, 117.650
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

SOUTH CHINA SEA.
DNC 23.
1. 200 METER LONG ORANGE AND BLACK HOSE ADRIFT
   VICINITY 17-12.7N 117-39.0E AT 140215Z AUG.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 170610Z AUG 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.

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Collected reports in this area · other warnings

18 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.

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Several 20 meter long hoses adrift in 16-12.9N 116-11.6E2015-10-25
Five persons overboard vicinity 18-39N 115-18E2015-10-11
Five persons overboard vicinity 18-11N 116-55E2015-10-11
Five persons overboard vicinity 18-21N 116-15E2015-10-09
100 meter long orange oil boom adrift in 18-48N 118-29E at 010808Z sep2015-09-01

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 2026-09-29 16:22Z; source collection times vary.

Other

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

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