Derelict 14 meter vessel, blue hull, capsized and adrift in 15-26.9S 145-22.0E at 200802Z mar
Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 512/04
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2004-03-22 11:20Z
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) · RCC AUSTRALIA POR EGC#77 200828Z MAR 04. Issued 2004-03-20 09:16Z. 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 -15.448, 145.367. 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 472/04(22) and 502/04(22)later cancellation notice
- issued
- 2004-03-20 09:16Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- RCC AUSTRALIA POR EGC#77 200828Z MAR 04
- issued by
- RCC AUSTRALIA POR
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -15.448, 145.367
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. DERELICT 14 METER VESSEL, BLUE HULL, CAPSIZED AND ADRIFT IN 15-26.9S 145-22.0E AT 200802Z MAR. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 27 MAR.
Reading this warning
- 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 · distress & casualty cases (archived)
135 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.
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 12-51.27S 143-49.93E at 220006Z mar2024-03-22
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 13-31.40S 143-36.50E at 171122Z feb2024-02-17
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz from S/V andromeda in vicinity 13-57.60S 144-34.53E at 160001Z feb2024-02-16
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz from five meter vessel, black hull, three persons on board, in vicinity…2024-02-03
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz from 44 foot S/V samphire in 13-24.27S 143-38.13E at 020937Z jan2024-01-02
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz from F/V santiago in 15-49.70S 145-22.30E at 280648Z nov2023-11-28
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
0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 19:15Z; source collection times vary.
Incidents
Search-and-rescue broadcasts, published only once a case has been closed for 30 days: groundings, sinkings, capsizes, fires, man overboard, overdue vessels. Nothing here is live. All current distress & casualty cases (archived) →
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.