Derelict 12 meter vessel showtime, white hull, capsized and adrift in 38-14.5S 148-24.8E at 230100Z feb
Bass Strait · HYDROPAC 641/20
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2020-02-24 03:27Z
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 18/20 230120Z FEB 20.. Issued 2020-02-23 01:26Z. 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
- Bass Strait. The parsed report position is -38.242, 148.413. 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
- Derelict 12 meter vessel showtime abandoned and adrift in 38-24.3S 148-16.3E at 232130Z feblater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2020-02-23 01:26Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2020-02-26 01:26Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 18/20 230120Z FEB 20.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Bass Strait
- position
- -38.242, 148.413
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
BASS STRAIT. AUSTRALIA-SOUTHEAST COAST. DNC 05. 1. DERELICT 12 METER VESSEL SHOWTIME, WHITE HULL, CAPSIZED AND ADRIFT IN 38-14.5S 148-24.8E AT 230100Z FEB. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 260126Z 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.
- 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)
84 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 40-37.93S 147-54.00E at 120150Z apr2024-04-12
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 40-14.10S 147-46.00E at 301229Z oct2023-10-30
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz in vicinity 38-33.20S 145-19.10E at 280713Z oct2023-10-28
- 15 meter S/V, three persons on board, on fire and sinking in 38-55.87S 146-31.00E at 230234Z oct2023-10-23
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz from nine meter S/V la balsa in 39-04.73S 146-10.07E at 210442Z mar2023-03-21
- Eight meter M/V larus, two persons on board, sinking and crew abandoning ship in 39-10.00S 146-16.40E at…2023-03-20
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-27 03:46Z; 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.