RACON at flounder a platform 38-18.8S 148-26.3E temporarily discontinued
Bass Strait · HYDROPAC 1374/02
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2002-07-27 20:45Z
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) · AUSCOAST 232/02 270643Z JUL 02; RCC AUSTRALIA IOR EGC#29753 270437Z JUL 02. Issued 2002-07-27 07:20Z. 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
- Pipelaying operations in progress until further notice by M/V lorelay vicinity 37-55S 148-26Ecancelled by this notice
- Cancel HYDROPAC 1374/02 and this msg, aid restoredlater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2002-07-27 07:20Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- AUSCOAST 232/02 270643Z JUL 02; RCC AUSTRALIA IOR EGC#29753 270437Z JUL 02
- issued by
- AUSCOAST
- 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 75240 (4TH ED). 1. RACON AT FLOUNDER A PLATFORM 38-18.8S 148-26.3E TEMPORARILY DISCONTINUED. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1340/02, OPERATIONS COMPLETED.
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.
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
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.
- 8 X 6M yellow surface buoys fl.white 3S temporarily established within 1.5NM of position 39-51.73S 145-22.30E2026-07-06
- Cape schanck light 38-29.57S 144-53.19E unreliable2023-10-11
- Cape schanck light 38-29.57S 144-53.19E unlit2023-07-07
- Gabo island light 37-34.00S 149-55.00E unreliable2023-04-10
- Cliffy island light 38-57.05S 146-42.34E unlit2022-05-18
- Cliffy island light 38-57.1S 146-42.4E unreliable2022-05-01
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
134 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 18:09Z; 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.