Nav aids

Creal reef RACON alrs vol 2 K3052 in position 20-31.87S 150-22.68E inoperative

Coral Sea · AUSCOAST 307/26

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 2026-09-30 19:01Z. First collected 2026-09-30 19:08Z; last seen in collection 2026-10-01 00:53Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Coral Sea. The parsed report position is -20.531, 150.378. 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 Coral Sea →

issued: 2026-09-30 19:01Z
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: -20.531, 150.378
nearest port: Mackay · 73 nm
source: Australian Maritime Safety Authority NAVAREA X + AUSCOAST (CC BY 4.0) · first seen 2026-09-30 19:08Z

Original warning text

CREAL REEF RACON ALRS VOL 2 K3052 IN POSITION 20-31.87S 150-22.68E
INOPERATIVE

Reading this warning

RACON (radar beacon): A radar beacon on a buoy, lighthouse or structure that answers a ship's radar with a Morse-code mark on the screen.
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.

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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

193 within 180 nm since 1999 · 2 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.

Creal reef light in position 20-31.87S 150-22.68E unlit2026-09-30
Lights unreliable: a. white tip reef range, front 19-55.47S 150-16.80E2024-11-16
White tip reef range front and rear lights 19-55.47S 150-16.09E unlit2024-09-28
Eshelby island light 20-01.02S 148-37.59E unreliable2024-04-16
Edward island light 20-15.02S 149-10.44E unlit2024-02-13
Edward island light 20-15.02S 149-10.44E unlit2024-02-13

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

138 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 01:03Z; 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.