San nicolas light 15-15.3S 075-15.5W unlit
South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 2022/02
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2002-11-08 11:20Z
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 XVI 243/02 272340Z OCT.. Issued 2002-10-28 00:55Z. 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
- South Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is -15.255, -75.258. 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 2192/02(72), survey completedcancelled by this notice
Current notices and reporting history in the South Pacific Ocean →
- issued
- 2002-10-28 00:55Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA XVI 243/02 272340Z OCT.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XVI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- South Pacific Ocean
- position
- -15.255, -75.258
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CHART 22180 (2ND ED). 1. SAN NICOLAS LIGHT 15-15.3S 075-15.5W UNLIT. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 2385/02 (DTG 280035Z OCT), MSG SENT IN ERROR.
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.
- 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.
- Date-time group (DTG)
- A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
28 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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.
- Punta san juan light 15-21.70S 075-10.80W unlit2026-09-03
- San nicolas light 15-15.4S 075-15.4W unlit2021-11-13
- San nicolas light 15-15.4S 075-15.4W inoperative2021-09-18
- Punta atico light 16-14.3S 073-42.1W inoperative2021-09-09
- Punta atico light 16-14-20S 073-42-05W inoperative2021-02-20
- San nicolas light 15-15.4S 075-15.4W inoperative2017-09-29
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
134 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-04 01:15Z; 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.