Caete Light at 00-49S 046-36W is destroyed; message cancels on September 3, 2026.
South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 453/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-09-08 17:45Z
This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-03-07 01:19Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-03 14:47Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- South Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is -0.817, -46.614. 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
- 2026-03-07 01:19Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-09-03 00:01Z
- sea
- South Atlantic Ocean
- position
- -0.817, -46.614
- nearest port
- Belem · 119 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
SOUTH ATLANTIC. BRAZIL. DNC 01. 1. CAETE LIGHT 00-49.02S 046-36.86W DESTROYED. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 030001Z SEP 26.
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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
223 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
- Ilha maiau light 01-16.90S 044-54.20W unlit until 27 oct2024-05-01
- Radio beacon at ponta de sao marcos in 02-29.29S 044-18.12W off air until 29 sep2024-04-02
- Ponta de sao marcos light in 02-29.31S 044-18.12W unlit until 29 sep2024-04-02
- 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
137 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 04:55Z; 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.