Eight meter concrete pontoon adrift in 26-31.3S 153-26.6E at 232200Z mar
Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 771/22
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2022-03-27 05:05Z
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) · SEA SAFETY 19/22 240440Z MAR 22.. Issued 2022-03-24 05:05Z. 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
- Coral Sea. The parsed report position is -26.522, 153.443. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2022-03-24 05:05Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2022-03-27 05:05Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 19/22 240440Z MAR 22.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -26.522, 153.443
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CORAL SEA. AUSTRALIA-EAST COAST. DNC 05. 1. EIGHT METER CONCRETE PONTOON ADRIFT IN 26-31.3S 153-26.6E AT 232200Z MAR. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 270505Z 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.
Collected reports in this area · other warnings
19 within 180 nm since 1999 · 1 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.
- Fad temporarily anchored in 26-36.55S 153-30.16E at 210506Z jul2026-07-21
- Fishing vessel sunk in 27-53.80S 153-38.50E2023-04-17
- Two meter mooring with 200 meter long rope with floats adrift in vicinity 29-05.81S 154-56.75E at 030200Z dec2021-12-03
- Austrailia-east coast DNC 052021-11-19
- Fishing gear with floats abandoned in vicinity 24-42.19S 153-35.29E2021-08-12
- Fisherman missing in vicinity 24-45.02S 152-37.36E vessels in vicinity requested to keep a sharp lookout,…2019-11-23
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 03:25Z; source collection times vary.
Other
Everything the classifier did not place elsewhere. All current other warnings →
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.