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Seven 1000 liter fuel tanks adrift vicinity 31-03.8S 170-06.8E at 181742Z may

South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 961/09

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2009-05-25 00:01Z

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 XIV 26/09 182340Z MAY 09.. Issued 2009-05-19 00:34Z. 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: South Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is -31.063, 170.113. 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 South Pacific Ocean →

issued: 2009-05-19 00:34Z
status: Archived notice
authority: NAVAREA XIV 26/09 182340Z MAY 09.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA XIV · named as the source of this relay
sea: South Pacific Ocean
position: -31.063, 170.113
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. SEVEN 1000 LITER FUEL TANKS ADRIFT
   VICINITY 31-03.8S 170-06.8E
   AT 181742Z MAY.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 25 MAY.

Reading this warning

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

5 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.

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Four red flares sighted vicinity 29-02S 167-57E2011-12-11
Red flare sighted vicinity 33-34S 170-15E at 130425Z oct2002-10-13
Vessel tanaloa dismasted in 30-35S 170-14E at 1000620Z nov2000-11-10

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 01:55Z; source collection times vary.

Other

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