Derelict seven meter vessel honeybadger adrift in 22-59.57S 152-34.19E at 280048Z aug
Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 3145/18
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2018-08-31 01:17Z
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 48/18 280057Z AUG 18.. Issued 2018-08-28 01:17Z. 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 -22.993, 152.570. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2018-08-28 01:17Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2018-08-31 01:17Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 48/18 280057Z AUG 18.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -22.993, 152.570
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CORAL SEA. AUSTRALIA-NORTHEAST COAST. DNC 05. 1. DERELICT SEVEN METER VESSEL HONEYBADGER ADRIFT IN 22-59.57S 152-34.19E AT 280048Z AUG. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 310117Z AUG 18.
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.
- 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
31 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.
- Derelict six meter vessel, white hull, adrift in vicinity 25-04.50S 153-26.00E at 112245Z jun2022-06-12
- Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift in 21-00.04S 153-12.40E at 070240Z aug2021-08-07
- Derelict eight meter vessel, black and white hull, partially submerged and adrift in 23-16.80S 151-32.27E at…2020-09-18
- Derelict nine meter M/V adrift in 23-38S 154-13E at 232300Z jul2020-07-24
- Derelict 16 meter vessel, white hull partially submerged and adrift in 25-53.1S 153-08.5E at 230121Z2020-03-23
- 40 foot vessel clipper t disabled and adrift in 21-39.67S 150-13.00E at 141520Z oct2019-10-14
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
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 03:24Z; 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.