RACON at east cay light 09-24.1S 144-14.3E unreliable
Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 2504/18
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2018-07-14 01:04Z
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 152/18 090050Z JUL 18.. Issued 2018-07-09 02:52Z. 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 -9.402, 144.238. 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 2504/18 and this msg, aid restoredlater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2018-07-09 02:52Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- AUSCOAST 152/18 090050Z JUL 18.
- issued by
- AUSCOAST
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -9.402, 144.238
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CORAL SEA. AUSTRALIA-NORTHEAST COAST. DNC 05. CHART 74285. RACON AT EAST CAY LIGHT 09-24.1S 144-14.3E UNRELIABLE.
Reading this warning
- DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
- A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
- 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.
- Inoperative / unreliable / off air
- An aid or radio service is not working as charted or published.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
199 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.
- Wednesday island light 10-30.40S 142-18.80E unlit2025-01-26
- Booby island light 10-36.30S 141-54.70E unreliable2024-12-06
- Moody reef light 12-05.0S 143-15.5E unlit2024-11-19
- Pullar rock light buoy in 10-30.44S 142-15.59E unlit2024-03-26
- Dalrymple islet light 09-36.87S 143-17.87E unlit2024-03-25
- Twin island light 10-27.78S 142-26.89E unreliable2024-02-22
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 2026-10-03 16:04Z; 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.