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Reef vts station (19-30S 148-45E) unreliable until 030247Z oct

Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 3375/17

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2017-10-03 03:47Z

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 178/17 030055Z OCT 17.. Issued 2017-10-03 01:35Z. 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 -19.500, 148.750. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Coral Sea →

issued: 2017-10-03 01:35Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2017-10-03 03:47Z
authority: AUSCOAST 178/17 030055Z OCT 17.
issued by: AUSCOAST
sea: Coral Sea
position: -19.500, 148.750
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

TORRES STRAIT.
AUSTRALIA-NORTHEAST COAST.
DNC 05.
1. REEF VTS STATION (19-30S 148-45E) UNRELIABLE UNTIL
   030247Z OCT. CONTACT REEF VTS VIA VHF,
   PHONE: 130 072 1293.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 030347Z OCT 17.

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.
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.
VHF / channel 16: Very high frequency marine radio; channel 16 is the international distress, safety and calling channel.
CANCEL THIS MSG: The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Collected reports in this area · other warnings

22 within 180 nm since 2001 · 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.

20 meter long tree adrift in vicinity 17-52.0S 146-13.0E at 110500Z feb2020-02-11
Reef vts station (19-30S 148-45E) inmarsat-c inoperative2020-02-09
Reef vts station (19-30S 148-45E) inoperative2019-03-31
Reef vts station (19-30S 148-45E) inmarsat-c and e-mail inoperative2018-09-06
Reef vts station (19-30S 148-45E) inoperative2018-09-05
Reef vts station (19-30S 148-45E) unreliable2018-09-03

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

Little bugatti reef light K3053 in position 20-01.23S 150-15.37E unreliableNav aids · 90.7 nm
Creal reef RACON alrs vol 2 K3052 in position 20-31.87S 150-22.68E inoperativeNav aids · 110.8 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

23 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 04:34Z; source collection times vary.

Other

Everything the classifier did not place elsewhere. All current other warnings →

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.