Four yellow surface buoys with flashing yellow light every 5 seconds established within 0.3 nautical miles of 29-27.00S 114-52.18E.
Indian Ocean · AUSCOAST 273/26
What this record establishes
Listed in force
The latest collected record lists this warning as active. This is the status of the notice, not a live observation of conditions at the location.
- Source and dates
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority NAVAREA X + AUSCOAST (CC BY 4.0) · Australian Maritime Safety Authority — JRCC Australia (NAVAREA X coordinator). Issued 2026-08-14 00:43Z. First collected 2026-08-18 09:33Z; last seen in collection 2026-10-01 05:08Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Indian Ocean. The parsed report position is -29.450, 114.870. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2026-08-14 00:43Z
- status
- Listed in force
- authority
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority — JRCC Australia (NAVAREA X coordinator)
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA X
- issued by
- JRCC AUSTRALIA
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- -29.450, 114.870
- nearest port
- Geraldton · 43 nm
- source
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority NAVAREA X + AUSCOAST (CC BY 4.0) · first seen 2026-08-18 09:33Z
Original warning text
4 X YELLOW SURFACE BUOYS, FL Y 5 SEC, ESTABLISHED WITHIN 0.3NM OF 29-27.00S 114-52.18E.
Reading this warning
- Light characteristic
- The coded description of a light — FL W 10 SEC 8 METERS 8 MILES — giving its rhythm, colour, period, height and range.
- 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.
Conditions at the position · now
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MET Norway · NOAA WaveWatch III · HYCOM · GEBCO 2020 · model data at the centroid, not an observation
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
93 within 180 nm since 1998 · 4 in the last 12 months · 1 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.
- Four buoys, yellow, fl y 5 sec, established in vicinity 29-27.00S 114-52.18E2026-08-14
- Platform cliff head 29-26.99S 114-52.18E unlit2026-07-24
- Cliff head platform light Q1754-8 in position 29-26.99S 114-52.18E unlit2026-07-24
- Pelsaert island light 28-59.13S 113-57.74E unlit2024-04-27
- Pelsaert island light 28-59.11S 113-57.74E unlit2024-04-09
- Pelsaert island light 28-59.13S 113-57.74E unlit2024-03-12
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
137 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 05:13Z; 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.