Eight meter vessel adrift in 11-32S 131-43E at 160944Z feb
Timor Sea · HYDROPAC 466/13
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2013-02-19 11:50Z
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 16/13 161045Z FEB 13.. Issued 2013-02-16 11:52Z. 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 -11.533, 131.717. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2013-02-16 11:52Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2013-02-19 11:50Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 16/13 161045Z FEB 13.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Timor Sea
- position
- -11.533, 131.717
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
AUSTRALIA-NORTH COAST. VAN DIEMEN GULF. 1. EIGHT METER VESSEL ADRIFT IN 11-32S 131-43E AT 160944Z FEB. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 191150Z FEB 13.
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.
- 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
78 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 F/V, partially submerged and adrift in 10-21.11S 131-33.11E at 260201Z mar2024-03-26
- Derelict nine meter lifeboat adrift in vicinity 09-08.60S 132-48.00E at 0404418Z mar2024-03-04
- Lifeboat, 9 meters, adrift in vicinity 09-11.70S 132-35.30E at 030712Z mar2024-03-03
- Derelict nine meter lifeboat adrift in 09-03.25S 131-02.75E at 010238Z mar2024-03-01
- Derelict nine meter lifeboat adrift in 09-02.21S 131-46.53E at 290424Z feb2024-02-29
- Derelict six meter vessel, partially submerged in 12-01.60S 130-03.71E at 100153Z nov2023-11-10
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 2026-10-03 08:06Z; 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.