Nav aids

Pau cavado light 00-11.51N 050-47.25W RACON off air until 07 aug

North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 321/23

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2023-08-08 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 83/23 082132Z FEB 23.. Issued 2023-02-08 21:43Z. 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: North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 0.192, -50.788. 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 North Atlantic Ocean →

issued: 2023-02-08 21:43Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2023-08-08 00:01Z
authority: NAVAREA V COASTAL 83/23 082132Z FEB 23.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA V · named as the source of this relay
issued by: NAVAREA V COASTAL
sea: North Atlantic Ocean
position: 0.192, -50.788
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.
BRAZIL.
DNC 01.
1. PAU CAVADO LIGHT 00-11.51N 050-47.25W
   RACON OFF AIR UNTIL 07 AUG.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 080001Z AUG 23.

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.
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.
CANCEL THIS MSG: The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
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.

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

120 within 180 nm since 1998 · 1 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
Odas buoy established in 01-27.36N 049-12.68W2024-07-21
Pau cavado light 00-11.51N 050-47.25W unreliable2024-03-12
Ponta tijoca light 00-33.44S 047-53.85W damaged and unlit until 27 feb 242023-09-01
Pau cavado light 00-11.50N 050-47.24W damaged2023-08-29
Bailique light 00-59.4N 049-56.8W unlit until 22 jan 222021-07-27

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 2026-10-02 04:40Z; 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.