Eight 6-meter yellow surface buoys flashing white every 3 seconds are temporarily established within 1.5 nautical miles of position 39-51.73S 145-22.30E, with 2.5 nautical miles clearance requested.
Bass Strait · AUSCOAST 233/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-09-07 23:08Z
This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.
- Source and dates
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority NAVAREA X + AUSCOAST (CC BY 4.0) · Australian Maritime Safety Authority — JRCC Australia (NAVAREA X coordinator). Issued 2026-07-06 04:56Z. First collected 2026-08-18 09:33Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-07 22:53Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Bass Strait. The parsed report position is -39.862, 145.372. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2026-07-06 04:56Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- authority
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority — JRCC Australia (NAVAREA X coordinator)
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA X
- issued by
- JRCC AUSTRALIA
- sea
- Bass Strait
- position
- -39.862, 145.372
- nearest port
- Burnie · 76 nm
- source
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority NAVAREA X + AUSCOAST (CC BY 4.0) · first seen 2026-08-18 09:33Z
Original warning text
8 X 6M YELLOW SURFACE BUOYS FL.WHITE 3S TEMPORARILY ESTABLISHED WITHIN 1.5NM OF POSITION 39-51.73S 145-22.30E. 2.5NM CLEARANCE REQUESTED
Reading this warning
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
227 within 180 nm since 1999 · 12 in the last 12 months · 3 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.
- 12 six meter buoys, yellow, fl w 3 sec, temporarily established in area within two miles of 38-41.03S…2026-09-08
- 12 X 6M yellow surface buoys fl.white 3S temporarily established within 1.5NM of position 38-41.03S…2026-09-08
- Two six meter buoys, yellow, fl w 3 sec, temporarily established in area within one mile of 38-47.19S…2026-09-07
- 2 X 6M yellow surface buoys fl.white 3S temporarily established within 1.0NM of position 38-47.19S…2026-09-07
- Table cape light k K3532 in position 40-56.80S 145-43.74E unreliable2026-08-18
- Six meter buoy, yellow, established in 38-47.62S 142-37.77E2026-06-29
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
137 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 05:02Z; source collection times vary.
Nav aids
Lights extinguished, buoys off station, RACON/NAVTEX outages. All current aids-to-navigation notices →
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.