Nav aids

RACON at flounder a platform 38-18.8S 148-26.3E temporarily discontinued

Bass Strait · HYDROPAC 115/99

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 1999-02-10 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). Issued 1999-02-09 02:35Z. 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
Bass Strait. The parsed report position is -38.313, 148.438. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Related notices and cancellation links

Current notices and reporting history in the Bass Strait →

issued
1999-02-09 02:35Z
status
Archived notice
sea
Bass Strait
position
-38.313, 148.438
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

CHART 75025 (9TH ED).
1. RACON AT FLOUNDER A PLATFORM 38-18.8S 148-26.3E
   TEMPORARILY DISCONTINUED.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 101/99, AID RESTORED.

Reading this warning

Chart reference
The number of the nautical chart on which the reported position lies.
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.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROPAC
The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices

223 within 180 nm since 1999 · 1 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

99
00
05
10
15
20
25
26

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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D

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

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 21:11Z; 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.