Pointe Venus Light in Tahiti is unreliable, and the earlier warning is canceled.
South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 3353/22
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-08-14 18:10Z
This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · AVURNAV PAPEETE 154/22 240250Z NOV 22.. Issued 2022-11-24 03:40Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:50Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- South Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is -17.495, -149.494. 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
- Pointe venus light 17-29.70S 149-29.66W unlitcancelled by this notice
Current notices and reporting history in the South Pacific Ocean →
- issued
- 2022-11-24 03:40Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- authority
- AVURNAV PAPEETE 154/22 240250Z NOV 22.
- issued by
- AVURNAV PAPEETE
- sea
- South Pacific Ocean
- position
- -17.495, -149.494
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
SOUTH PACIFIC. TAHITI. DNC 06. 1. POINTE VENUS LIGHT 17-29.70S 149-29.66W UNRELIABLE. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 3184/22.
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.
- 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.
- 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
16 within 180 nm since 1999 · 1 in the last 12 months · 2 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.
- Pointe aroa light 17-28.40S 149-46.50W unlit2026-04-08
- Jrcc tahiti 17-31.05S 149-31.54W mf and hf services off air 132200Z to 132300Z feb2024-02-13
- Pointe venus light 17-29.70S 149-29.66W unlit2024-02-08
- Pointe venus light 17-29.70S 149-29.66W unlit2022-11-10
- Pointe venus light 17-29.7S 149-29.7W unreliable2022-03-15
- For assistance contact jrcc tahiti phone: 689 4054 1616, fax: 689 4042 3915, e-mail: contact@jrcc.pf2021-05-10
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
- Pointe venus light 17-29.70S 149-29.66W unlitNav aids · 0 nm
- Pointe aroa light 17-28.40S 149-46.50W unlitNav aids · 16.1 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
137 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 15:47Z; 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.