RACON at santa marta light in 28-36.23S 048-48.76W inoperative until 18 jun 24
South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 2930/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2024-06-19 00:01Z
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 COASTAL 746/23 212146Z DEC 23.. Issued 2023-12-21 22:05Z. 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 -28.604, -48.813. 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
- 2023-12-21 22:05Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA V COASTAL 746/23 212146Z DEC 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA V · named as the source of this relay
- issued by
- NAVAREA V COASTAL
- sea
- South Atlantic Ocean
- position
- -28.604, -48.813
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN SOUTH ATLANTIC. BRAZIL. DNC 01. 1. RACON AT SANTA MARTA LIGHT IN 28-36.23S 048-48.76W INOPERATIVE UNTIL 18 JUN 24. 2. CANCEL THIS WARNING 190001Z JUN 24.
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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
237 within 180 nm since 1998 · 2 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.
- Itapeva light 29-33.40S 049-53.37W unlit until 07 mar 272026-09-09
- Ponta da galheta light 27-34.55S 048-24.99W unlit until 31 aug2026-03-05
- Ponta da galheta light 27-34.55S 048-24.99W unlit until 01 dec2024-06-05
- Ilha dos lobos light 28-26.77S 048-42.45W unlit until 14 oct2024-04-17
- RACON at solidao light 30-42.08S 050-28.85W inoperative until 30 sep2024-04-04
- RACON at berta light 30-24.02S 050-17.42W inoperative until 30 sep2024-04-04
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
137 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 05:50Z; 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.