50 foot M/V seaandra abandoned and adrift in 34-14.8S 134-43.5E at 262220Z feb
Great Australian Bight · HYDROPAC 334/00
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2000-02-27 02:30Z
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) · 1. RCC AUSTRALIA POR 1508/00 262256Z FEB 00; 2. RCC AUSTRALIA 262243Z FEB 00.. Issued 2000-02-26 23:47Z. 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
- Great Australian Bight. The parsed report position is -34.247, 134.725. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- 50 foot M/V seaandra, two persons on board, disabled due to flooding and engine failure in 34-22S 134-43E at…cancelled by this notice
- Cancel HYDROPAC 334/00 and this msg, vessel in towlater cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Great Australian Bight →
- issued
- 2000-02-26 23:47Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- 1. RCC AUSTRALIA POR 1508/00 262256Z FEB 00; 2. RCC AUSTRALIA 262243Z FEB 00.
- issued by
- RCC AUSTRALIA POR
- sea
- Great Australian Bight
- position
- -34.247, 134.725
- vessel
- M/V SEAANDRA · 2 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. 50 FOOT M/V SEAANDRA ABANDONED AND ADRIFT IN 34-14.8S 134-43.5E AT 262220Z FEB. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 332/00. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 04 MAR.
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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROPAC
- The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
- 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
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.
- Derelict 6.5 meter M/V gccm adrift in 36-06.58S 134-18.85E at 121900Z jul2023-07-12
- Derelict 6.5 meter M/V gccm adrift in vicinity 35-26.33S 132-31.91E at 100900Z jul2023-07-10
- Derelict 6.5 meter M/V gccm adrift in 35-22.38S 131-53.43E at 090700Z jul2023-07-09
- 11.6 meter vessel, white hull, adrift in vicinity 35-34S 137-37E2021-01-25
- Derelict six meter vessel, yellow hull, adrift in vicinity 36-11.6S 137-18.5E at 310430Z dec2018-12-31
- Derelict 17 meter vessel westwing state, white hull with blue stripe, adrift in vicinity 35-17.89S…2018-07-18
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
5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-28 12:57Z; 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.