Basilisk passage nateara reef light 09-32.5S 147-07.6E unlit and RACON at reduced power
Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 1828/04
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2004-11-29 02:38Z
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) · NAVAREA X 13/04 26 NOV 04.. Issued 2004-11-26 21:17Z. 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
- Coral Sea. The parsed report position is -9.542, 147.127. 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
- Cancel HYDROPAC 1735/04 and 1826/04, station restoredlater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2004-11-26 21:17Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA X 13/04 26 NOV 04.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA X · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -9.542, 147.127
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CHART 73581 (4TH ED). BASILISK PASSAGE NATEARA REEF LIGHT 09-32.5S 147-07.6E UNLIT AND RACON AT REDUCED POWER.
Reading this warning
- Chart reference
- The number of the nautical chart on which the reported position lies.
- 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.
- Unlit / extinguished
- A light, buoy or structure that is not showing its charted light.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
15 within 180 nm since 1998 · 0 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.
- East cay light 09-24.15S 144-14.28E unlit2023-09-29
- RACON at east cay light 09-24.1S 144-14.3E unreliable2018-07-09
- RACON at east cay light 09-24.1S 144-14.2E inoperative2004-03-25
- Spear island light 08-59.6S 149-08.3E unlit2003-12-04
- Veale reef light 09-12S 149-28E unlit2003-12-03
- Ham reef light 09-12.1S 149-26.2E unlit2003-12-03
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 16:43Z; 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.