45 meter vessel adrift in vicinity 37-00.1S 138-24.1E
Great Australian Bight · HYDROPAC 485/21
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2021-02-13 07:43Z
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 9/21 100725Z FEB 21.. Issued 2021-02-10 14:54Z. 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
- Great Australian Bight. The parsed report position is -37.002, 138.402. 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
- Man overboard from M/V baltic k in 07-31N 108-35E at 100336Z febcancelled by this notice
- 45 meter vessel anchored in 37-00.1S 138-24.1Ecancelled by this notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Great Australian Bight →
- issued
- 2021-02-10 14:54Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2021-02-13 07:43Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 9/21 100725Z FEB 21.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Great Australian Bight
- position
- -37.002, 138.402
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIGHT. AUSTRALIA-SOUTH COAST. DNC 05. 1. 45 METER VESSEL ADRIFT IN VICINITY 37-00.1S 138-24.1E. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 470/21(93), 474/21. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 130743Z FEB 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
10 within 180 nm since 2001 · 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.
- 11.6 meter vessel, white hull, adrift in vicinity 35-34S 137-37E2021-01-25
- Derelict six meter vessel, yellow hull, adrift in vicinity 36-11.6S 137-18.5E at 310430Z dec2018-12-31
- Derelict 17 meter vessel westwing state, white hull with blue stripe, adrift in vicinity 35-17.89S…2018-07-18
- Derelict 22 meter vessel port princess partially submerged and adrift in 38-05.58S 140-25.41E at 160343Z may…2017-05-16
- Derelict eight meter M/V partially submerged and adrift in 38-19.3S 140-23.1E at 090200Z mar2017-03-09
- Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift in 38-12.80S 140-30.61E at 020520Z oct2014-10-02
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 2026-09-25 00:10Z; 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.