Derelict 15 meter vessel adrift in 17-26.12S 151-01.46E at 070415Z dec 10
Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 2695/10
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2010-12-10 06:30Z
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 110/10 070539Z DEC 10.. Issued 2010-12-07 06:32Z. 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
- Coral Sea. The parsed report position is -17.435, 151.024. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2010-12-07 06:32Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2010-12-10 06:30Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 110/10 070539Z DEC 10.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -17.435, 151.024
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
AUSTRALIA-NORTHEAST COAST. 1. DERELICT 15 METER VESSEL ADRIFT IN 17-26.12S 151-01.46E AT 070415Z DEC 10. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 100630Z DEC.
Reading this warning
- Derelict
- An abandoned vessel still afloat and drifting, with no one on board.
- 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 · derelict & adrift vessels
9 within 180 nm since 2001 · 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.
- Derelict 12 meter S/V, blue hull, adrift in vicinity 18-01.60S 154-02.90E at 051850Z sep2023-09-05
- Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift in 20-03.46S 149-47.15E at 250139Z apr2017-04-25
- Derelict 11 meter S/V adrift in 16-37.2S 149-33.8E at 200136Z feb2012-02-20
- Derelict 11 meter S/V, white hull, adrift in 17-49.27S 150-47.88E at 310405Z jan2012-01-31
- Derelict helicopter adrift on floats vicinity 19-17.7S 149-02.8E at 262331Z mar2011-01-28
- Derelict ten meter vessel adrift vicinity 19-53.5S 152-27.3E at 090210Z jan2011-01-09
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
6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 04:35Z; source collection times vary.
Derelicts
Abandoned, disabled or drifting vessels. All current derelict & adrift vessels →
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.