Debris

15 meter long cable with yellow buoy adrift at 190500Z feb in: a. 39-05.25S 149-28.48E

Tasman Sea · HYDROPAC 595/20

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2020-02-22 06:19Z

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) · SEA SAFETY 17/20 190557Z FEB 20.. Issued 2020-02-19 06:19Z. 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 -39.088, 149.471. 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 Tasman Sea →

issued
2020-02-19 06:19Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2020-02-22 06:19Z
authority
SEA SAFETY 17/20 190557Z FEB 20.
issued by
SEA SAFETY
sea
Tasman Sea
position
-39.088, 149.471
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

TASMAN SEA.
TASMANIA.
DNC 05.
1. 15 METER LONG CABLE WITH YELLOW BUOY
   ADRIFT AT 190500Z FEB IN:
   A. 39-05.25S 149-28.48E.
   B. 39-05.36S 149-28.00E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 220619Z FEB 20.

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.
Off station / missing buoy
A buoy that is not in its charted position — dragged, damaged, missing or removed.
Adrift
Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
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.
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.
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 · drifting objects

3 within 180 nm since 2003 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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

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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

Worldwide in the collected sources

2 drifting objects listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 14:20Z; 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.