Derelict ten meter vessel adrift vicinity 19-53.5S 152-27.3E at 090210Z jan
Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 86/11
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2011-01-12 07:40Z
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 2/11 090253Z JAN 11.. Issued 2011-01-09 07:46Z. 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 -19.892, 152.455. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2011-01-09 07:46Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2011-01-12 07:40Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 2/11 090253Z JAN 11.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -19.892, 152.455
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
AUSTRALIA-EAST COAST. 1. DERELICT TEN METER VESSEL ADRIFT VICINITY 19-53.5S 152-27.3E AT 090210Z JAN. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 120740Z JAN.
Reading this warning
- 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 · derelict & adrift vessels
17 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 12 meter S/V, blue hull, adrift in vicinity 18-01.60S 154-02.90E at 051850Z sep2023-09-05
- Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift in 21-00.04S 153-12.40E at 070240Z aug2021-08-07
- 40 foot vessel clipper t disabled and adrift in 21-39.67S 150-13.00E at 141520Z oct2019-10-14
- Derelict six meter vessel adrift in vicinity 22-09.3S 151-04.8E at 192211Z jun2019-06-20
- Derelict ten meter vessel, white hull, adrift in 22-05.0S 150-18.7E at 031810Z feb2018-02-04
- 190 meter M/V abu al abyad disabled and adrift in 21-04S 152-57E at 211926Z may2017-05-21
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
6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 03:23Z; 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.