Ten meter long tree adrift in 10-18.25S 131-16.38E at 120316Z dec
Timor Sea · HYDROPAC 3592/21
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2021-12-15 04:48Z
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 129/21 120358Z DEC 21.. Issued 2021-12-12 04:48Z. 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
- Timor Sea. The parsed report position is -10.304, 131.273. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2021-12-12 04:48Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2021-12-15 04:48Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 129/21 120358Z DEC 21.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Timor Sea
- position
- -10.304, 131.273
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
TIMOR SEA. AUSTRALIA-NORTH COAST. DNC 04. 1. TEN METER LONG TREE ADRIFT IN 10-18.25S 131-16.38E AT 120316Z DEC. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 150448Z DEC 21.
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
16 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.
- 40 meter pontoon adrift in vicinity 09-46.92S 131-38.78E at 070348Z sep2022-09-07
- 15 meter tree adrift in vicinity 10-30.70S 130-35.18E at 310151Z may2022-05-31
- Four meter raft fastened to a buoy in 10-20.5S 129-43.8E at 070258Z sep2019-09-07
- East vernon island light 12-04.6S 131-05.7E at reduced intensity2015-06-11
- Northwest vernon island light 12-02.9S 130-59.8E at reduced intensity2015-06-11
- Eight meter vessel take me away, white hull, requesting assistance in 10-43S 128-34E at 110021Z nov2014-11-11
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 05:35Z; 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.