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Ten meter long tree trunk adrift in 10-39.8S 142-36.2E at 140440Z nov

Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 3511/16

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2016-11-17 10:12Z

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 47/16 140451Z NOV 16.. Issued 2016-11-14 10:12Z. 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 -10.663, 142.603. 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 Coral Sea →

issued
2016-11-14 10:12Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2016-11-17 10:12Z
authority
SEA SAFETY 47/16 140451Z NOV 16.
issued by
SEA SAFETY
sea
Coral Sea
position
-10.663, 142.603
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

CORAL SEA.
TORRES STRAIT.
AUSTRALIA-NORTHEAST COAST.
DNC 05.
1. TEN METER LONG TREE TRUNK ADRIFT IN
   10-39.8S 142-36.2E AT 140440Z NOV.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 171012Z NOV 16.

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

70 within 180 nm since 1999 · 4 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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Month of issue in the collected archive

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

23 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 02:26Z; source collection times vary.

Other

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

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