Derelict 11 meter vessel, white hull, adrift in vicinity 25-31.97S 160-18.85E at 260030Z oct
Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 3521/19
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2019-10-27 05:23Z
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 X 80/19 260051Z OCT 19.. Issued 2019-10-26 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 -25.533, 160.314. 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
- Cancel HYDROPAC 3521/19 and this msg, search suspendedlater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2019-10-26 01:17Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2019-10-29 01:17Z
- authority
- NAVAREA X 80/19 260051Z OCT 19.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA X · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -25.533, 160.314
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CORAL SEA. DNC 06. 1. DERELICT 11 METER VESSEL, WHITE HULL, ADRIFT IN VICINITY 25-31.97S 160-18.85E AT 260030Z OCT. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 290117Z OCT 19.
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
5 within 180 nm since 2008 · 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 16 meter vessel adrift in vicinity 23-00.00S 161-00.00E2023-12-13
- Derelict 12 meter S/V, blue hull, adrift vicinity 26-55S 162-10E at 232353Z jul2015-07-24
- Derelict ten meter vessel, blue hull, adrift vicinity 25-55S 162-10E at 230249Z jul2015-07-23
- Derelict 12 meter S/V adrift in 23-37.78S 159-20.59E at 300117Z jul2008-07-30
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 02:58Z; 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.