Nav aids

Nga chart 24292 (4TH ed) ponta tijoca light 00-33.4S 047-53.3W unlit and RACON off air

South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 1179/11

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2011-09-03 09:03Z

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 V I 604/11 260038Z JUL 11.. Issued 2011-07-26 08:04Z. 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 Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is -0.557, -47.888. 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 South Atlantic Ocean →

issued: 2011-07-26 08:04Z
status: Archived notice
authority: NAVAREA V I 604/11 260038Z JUL 11.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA V · named as the source of this relay
issued by: NAVAREA V I
sea: South Atlantic Ocean
position: -0.557, -47.888
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

BRAZIL-NORTH COAST.
NGA CHART 24292 (4TH ED)
PONTA TIJOCA LIGHT 00-33.4S 047-53.3W UNLIT
AND RACON OFF AIR.

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.
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.
Inoperative / unreliable / off air: An aid or radio service is not working as charted or published.

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Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices

180 within 180 nm since 1998 · 3 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.

Chapeu virado light 01-08.12S 048-28.14W2026-09-11
Curuca light 00-33.88S 047-45.98W unlit until 20 feb 272026-08-25
Caete light 00-49.02S 046-36.86W destroyed2026-03-07
Odas buoy established in 01-27.36N 049-12.68W2024-07-21
Pau cavado light 00-11.51N 050-47.25W unreliable2024-03-12
Ilha do apeu light 00-54.62S 046-11.34W damaged and unlit until 27 feb 242023-09-01

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 2026-10-02 16:20Z; 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.