Large fishing net adrift in 12-50.7S 141-25.0E
Arafura Sea · HYDROPAC 639/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-03-07 03:05Z
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) · AUSCOAST 63/12 050415Z MAR 12.. Issued 2012-03-05 04:41Z. 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
- Arafura Sea. The parsed report position is -12.845, 141.417. 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 639/12 and this msglater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2012-03-05 04:41Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2012-03-08 04:45Z
- authority
- AUSCOAST 63/12 050415Z MAR 12.
- issued by
- AUSCOAST
- sea
- Arafura Sea
- position
- -12.845, 141.417
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
AUSTRALIA-NORTH COAST. GULF OF CARPENTARIA. 1. LARGE FISHING NET ADRIFT IN 12-50.7S 141-25.0E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 080445Z MAR.
Reading this warning
- Fish aggregating device (FAD)
- Floating rafts, nets and lines used by fishing fleets — hazards to propellers when they are adrift or unlit.
- 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.
- 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 · drifting objects
19 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.
- Four mooring buoys adrift in vicinity 11-28S 139-18E at 100952Z dec2021-12-10
- Ten meter log adrift in vicinity 10-33.14S 142-04.13E at 242053Z jan 202020-01-25
- 20 meter log adrift in 11-27.06S 142-58.57E at 130330Z2019-04-13
- 15 meter long fishing net adrift in 10-30.36S 142-15.57E at 160220Z jan2019-01-16
- Ten meter long log adrift in vicinity 10-29.8S 142-21.1E at 070048Z feb2018-02-07
- Ten meter long log adrift in vicinity 10-30.7S 142-14.7E at 060048Z feb2018-02-06
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
- Derelict ten meter vessel adrift in 11-55.02S 141-54.27E at 020629Z augDerelicts · 62.6 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
3 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 16:35Z; 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.