Six meter fad adrift in vicinity 09-56.90S 142-27.80E at 140640Z mar
Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 848/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-03-17 08:26Z
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 17/23 140821Z MAR 23.. Issued 2023-03-14 08:28Z. 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 -9.948, 142.463. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2023-03-14 08:28Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-03-17 08:26Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 17/23 140821Z MAR 23.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -9.948, 142.463
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
TORRES STRAIT. AUSTRALIA. DNC 05. 1. SIX METER FAD ADRIFT IN VICINITY 09-56.90S 142-27.80E AT 140640Z MAR. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 170826Z 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.
- 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.
- 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 · drifting objects
29 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.
- Fishing net adrift in vicinity 09-48.93S 141-53.12E at 230707Z jan2023-01-23
- Ten meter log adrift in 09-54.85S 143-22.43E at 190312Z nov2022-11-19
- Nine meter long log adrift in 09-35.23S 143-03.97E at 041050Z aug 212021-08-04
- Three meter fishing net adrift in 09-54.7S 142-05.9E at 242330Z may2021-05-25
- 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
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
3 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 01:36Z; 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.