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Two meter mooring with 200 meter long line with floats adrift in vicinity 30-49.69S 154-11.13E at 170001Z dec

Tasman Sea · HYDROPAC 3662/21

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2021-12-20 16:00Z

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 134/21 170241Z DEC 21.. Issued 2021-12-17 16:00Z. 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
Tasman Sea. The parsed report position is -30.828, 154.185. 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

Current notices and reporting history in the Tasman Sea →

issued
2021-12-17 16:00Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2021-12-20 16:00Z
authority
SEA SAFETY 134/21 170241Z DEC 21.
issued by
SEA SAFETY
sea
Tasman Sea
position
-30.828, 154.185
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

TASMAN SEA.
AUSTRALIA-EAST COAST.
DNC 05.
1. TWO METER MOORING WITH 200 METER LONG
   LINE WITH FLOATS ADRIFT IN VICINITY
   30-49.69S 154-11.13E AT 170001Z DEC.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 3637/21.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 201600Z 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.
Fish aggregating device (FAD)
Floating rafts, nets and lines used by fishing fleets — hazards to propellers when they are adrift or unlit.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · other warnings

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

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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 03:26Z; 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.