Numerous 11 meter long fiberglass swimming pools adrift in 37-17.9S 139-20.3E at 070030Z jun
Great Australian Bight · HYDROPAC 981/03
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2003-06-14 00:00Z
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) · RCC AUSTRALIA SSM 27/03 POR EGC #1003 070800Z JUN 03. Issued 2003-06-07 09:25Z. 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
- Great Australian Bight. The parsed report position is -37.298, 139.338. 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 Great Australian Bight →
- issued
- 2003-06-07 09:25Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- RCC AUSTRALIA SSM 27/03 POR EGC #1003 070800Z JUN 03
- issued by
- RCC AUSTRALIA SSM
- sea
- Great Australian Bight
- position
- -37.298, 139.338
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. NUMEROUS 11 METER LONG FIBERGLASS SWIMMING POOLS ADRIFT IN 37-17.9S 139-20.3E AT 070030Z JUN. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 14 JUN.
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.
Collected reports in this area · other warnings
23 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.
- 45 meter pontoon marked with radar reflectors and white flashing lights at anchor until 290001Z feb in…2024-02-05
- Althorpe islands range, front 35-22.10S 136-51.50E unreliable2022-10-16
- 45 meter sea cage established in 36-08.89S 138-15.19E2022-02-13
- 45 meter sea cage established in 35-51.75S 138-36.93E2022-01-30
- 45 meter sea cage established in 36-12S 138-12E2022-01-26
- 45 meter sea cage established in 36-17.6S 138-17.0E2022-01-22
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
21 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 18:36Z; 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.