100 meter long orange oil boom adrift in 18-48N 118-29E at 010808Z sep
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 2884/15
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2015-09-04 13:36Z
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 672/15 011258Z SEP 15.. Issued 2015-09-01 13:36Z. 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
- South China Sea. The parsed report position is 18.800, 118.483. 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
- 2015-09-01 13:36Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2015-09-04 13:36Z
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 672/15 011258Z SEP 15.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 18.800, 118.483
- 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. 100 METER LONG ORANGE OIL BOOM ADRIFT IN 18-48N 118-29E AT 010808Z SEP. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 041336Z SEP 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
11 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.
- Five persons overboard vicinity 18-11N 116-55E2015-10-11
- Five persons overboard vicinity 18-21N 116-15E2015-10-09
- 200 meter long orange and black hose adrift vicinity 17-12.7N 117-39.0E at 140215Z aug2015-08-14
- Two persons abandoned 24 foot M/V sunny, orange hull, in 16-43.5N 118-32.7E2008-05-12
- M/V front tobago capsizing and in need of assistance vicinity 19-26N 119-26E at 110310Z mar2003-03-11
- Bombing exercises: a. 200200Z to 200500Z jun within 25 miles of trackline between 16-48N 116-43E and 17-23N…2002-06-19
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 2026-10-02 03:08Z; 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.