Debris

20 meter long object adrift vicinity 03-35.8N 122-54.1E at 180920Z mar

Celebes Sea · HYDROPAC 537/10

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2010-03-21 16:19Z

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) · NAVAREA XI 166/10 181423Z MAR 10.. Issued 2010-03-18 16:33Z. 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: Celebes Sea. The parsed report position is 3.597, 122.902. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Celebes Sea →

issued: 2010-03-18 16:33Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2010-03-21 16:19Z
authority: NAVAREA XI 166/10 181423Z MAR 10.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea: Celebes Sea
position: 3.597, 122.902
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

SULAWESI SEA.
1. 20 METER LONG OBJECT ADRIFT VICINITY
   03-35.8N 122-54.1E AT 180920Z MAR.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 211619Z MAR.

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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · drifting objects

1 within 180 nm since 2010 · 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.

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

2 drifting objects listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 19:49Z; source collection times vary.

Debris

Logs, buoys, mooring gear and other objects adrift. All current drifting objects →

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.