Partially submerged vessel with six meter rope attached adrift in vicinity 13-05.26S 125-53.17E at 140410Z mar
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 847/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-03-17 06:35Z
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 16/23 140613Z MAR 23.. Issued 2023-03-14 06:39Z. 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
- Indian Ocean. The parsed report position is -13.088, 125.886. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2023-03-14 06:39Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-03-17 06:35Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 16/23 140613Z MAR 23.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- -13.088, 125.886
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN INDIAN OCEAN. AUSTRALIA. DNC 04. 1. PARTIALLY SUBMERGED VESSEL WITH SIX METER ROPE ATTACHED ADRIFT IN VICINITY 13-05.26S 125-53.17E AT 140410Z MAR. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 170635Z MAR 23.
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.
- Semi-submerged
- Floating at or just below the surface, so hard to see by eye or radar.
- 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 · derelict & adrift vessels
92 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.
- Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift in 13-52.55S 125-36.03E at 041235Z nov2023-11-04
- Derelict F/V partially submerged and adrift in 12-21.42S 123-04.94E at 300333Z oct2023-10-30
- 14 meter F/V, green hull, adrift in vicinity 13-15.65S 125-27.40E at 290424Z aug2023-08-29
- Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift in 14-27.65S 123-57.32E at 020803Z jun2023-06-02
- Derelict 13 meter F/V partially submerged and adrift in vicinity 14-18.55S 124-01.40E at 240600Z nov2022-11-24
- Derelict eight meter raft adrift in 13-37.10S 123-39.50E at 191147Z sep2022-09-19
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
- Special purpose vessel shark 1 / T2DT6 / 572762220 conducting hydrographic survey in an area bounded by…Surveys · 72.1 nm
- Survey operations in progress until further notice by M/V shark 1 in area bound by 11-30.00S 125-05.00E,…Surveys · 72.1 nm
- Underwater operations in progress until further notice by M/V safe boreas in area bound by 12-54.90S…Surveys · 81.4 nm
- Special purpose vessel safe boreas 565905000 supporting underwater operations in an area bounded by…Surveys · 81.4 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-26 21:50Z; source collection times vary.
Derelicts
Abandoned, disabled or drifting vessels. All current derelict & adrift vessels →
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.