The current meter at Nardana Patches, at 10-30.29S 142-14.63E, is unreliable.
Coral Sea · AUSCOAST 302/26
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 2026-09-24 23:33Z. First collected 2026-09-24 23:53Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-25 02:38Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Coral Sea. The parsed report position is -10.505, 142.244. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2026-09-24 23:33Z
- status
- Listed in force
- authority
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority — JRCC Australia (NAVAREA X coordinator)
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA X
- issued by
- JRCC AUSTRALIA
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -10.505, 142.244
- nearest port
- Thursday Island · 5 nm
- source
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority NAVAREA X + AUSCOAST (CC BY 4.0) · first seen 2026-09-24 23:53Z
Original warning text
NARDANA PATCHES CURRENT METER IN POSITION 10-30.29S 142-14.63E UNRELIABLE
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.
- Inoperative / unreliable / off air
- An aid or radio service is not working as charted or published.
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 · other warnings
68 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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.
- Nardana patches current meter in position 10-30.29S 142-14.63E inoperative2026-08-31
- Booby island (weather station) in position 10-36.15S 141-54.61E inoperative2026-08-21
- Booby island (tide gauge) in position 10-36.15S 141-54.61E inoperative2026-08-21
- Twin island light 10-27.78S 142-26.89E at reduced intensity2024-04-03
- S/V follow through caught in fish nets in 08-41.95S 140-23.37E at 150900Z nov2023-11-15
- Virtual AIS aid to navigation isolated danger mark established in 10-34.33S 142-04.04E2023-11-07
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
- Derelict ten meter vessel adrift in 11-55.02S 141-54.27E at 020629Z augDerelicts · 87.1 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
21 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-25 02:39Z; 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.