A radar beacon at Pitt Island, Beaufort Sea, Canada, at 69-09.00N 136-11.00W is inoperative.
Beaufort Sea · HYDROARC 145/25
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-09-16 07:33Z
A later message explicitly cancels this notice. Cancellation ends the notice; the later message must be checked for any statement about recovery or continuing danger.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2025-08-29 00:41Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-18 08:32Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Beaufort Sea. The parsed report position is 69.150, -136.183. 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
- Light at pitt island 69-09.00N 136-11.00W inoperativelater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2025-08-29 00:41Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- sea
- Beaufort Sea
- position
- 69.150, -136.183
- nearest port
- Tuktoyaktuk · 70 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
BEAUFORT SEA. CANADA. DNC 27. RACON AT PITT ISLAND 69-09.00N 136-11.00W INOPERATIVE.
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.
- 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
50 within 180 nm since 2010 · 7 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.
- Light at shingle point 69-00.00N 137-34.00W inoperative2026-09-16
- Light at pitt island 69-09.00N 136-11.00W inoperative2026-09-16
- RACON and light at pelly island 69-37.00N 135-29.00W inoperative2026-09-16
- RACON at pelly island in 69-37.44N 135-29.26W inoperative2026-09-10
- RACON at relief islet 70-08.75N 130-49.67W inoperative2026-09-10
- Mcts iqaluit remote station resolute 68-19.00N 133-35.00W mf and hf r/t services off air2026-08-25
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
147 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-24 17:05Z; 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.