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Two 40 meter long fish havens with rope adrift in 09-52.5S 136-04.6E at 190724Z mar

Arafura Sea · HYDROPAC 721/22

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2022-03-22 09:10Z

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 92/22 190855Z MAR 22.. Issued 2022-03-19 09:10Z. 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 -9.875, 136.077. 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 Arafura Sea →

issued: 2022-03-19 09:10Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2022-03-22 09:10Z
authority: NAVAREA XI 92/22 190855Z MAR 22.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea: Arafura Sea
position: -9.875, 136.077
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

ARAFURA SEA.
AUSTRALIA-NORTH COAST.
DNC 05.
1. TWO 40 METER LONG FISH HAVENS WITH ROPE
   ADRIFT IN 09-52.5S 136-04.6E AT 190724Z MAR.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 220910Z MAR 22.

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.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · other warnings

10 within 180 nm since 2004 · 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.

15 meter long rope adrift in vicinity 09-43.3S 134-22.5E at 090402Z mar2022-03-09
Net with float adrift in 09-39.7S 136-13.7E at 010822Z jan2020-01-01
Fishing gear abandoned in 09-27S 139-05E2017-07-17
Flares sighted in vicinity 12-01.5S 135-33.5E2016-12-12
Possible abandoned 14 meter S/V viking, white hull, in 10-04.44S 134-38.31E at 030231Z oct2013-10-03
M/V southern arrow on fire in 08-28S 136-23E at 260430Z apr2009-04-26

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

23 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 06:09Z; source collection times vary.

Other

Everything the classifier did not place elsewhere. All current other warnings →

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