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Ponta da baleia light 17-41.31S 039-08.27W unlit until 13 aug

South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 321/24

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2024-08-14 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 84/24 152132Z FEB 24.. Issued 2024-02-16 02:18Z. 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 -17.689, -39.138. 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: 2024-02-16 02:18Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2024-08-14 00:01Z
authority: NAVAREA V COASTAL 84/24 152132Z FEB 24.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA V · named as the source of this relay
issued by: NAVAREA V COASTAL
sea: South Atlantic Ocean
position: -17.689, -39.138
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. PONTA DA BALEIA LIGHT 17-41.31S 039-08.27W UNLIT
   UNTIL 13 AUG.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 140001Z AUG 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.
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.
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

229 within 180 nm since 1999 · 2 in the last 12 months · 1 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.

Araripe light 16-08.09S 038-57.86W unlit until 31 jan 272026-08-05
Yellow odas buoy established in 17-58.12S 038-41.48W until 19 oct2026-04-23
Mucuri light 18-03.61S 039-32.06W unlit until 09 mar 252024-09-11
Ponta uchuria light 20-19.40S 040-17.20W unlit until 31 jul2024-02-02
Alinh c ponta do tagano range light 20-19.26S 040-16.55W unlit until 26 jul2024-01-28
Ilha do boi light 20-18.64S 040-16.90W unlit2023-12-29

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

Yellow odas buoy established in 17-58.12S 038-41.48W until 19 octNav aids · 30.6 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

137 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 19:14Z; 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.