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Brazil-north Coast

South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 593/12

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2012-04-28 08:58Z

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 N 335/12 13 MAR 12.. Issued 2012-03-13 21:27Z. 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 -2.488, -44.302. 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: 2012-03-13 21:27Z
status: Archived notice
authority: NAVAREA V N 335/12 13 MAR 12.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA V · named as the source of this relay
issued by: NAVAREA V N
sea: South Atlantic Ocean
position: -2.488, -44.302
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

BRAZIL-NORTH COAST.
CHART 24020
PONTA DE SAO MARCOS RADIOBEACON 02-29.3S 044-18.1W INOPERATIVE.

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.
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

179 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.

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

Depths less than charted in areas bound by: a. 02-10.17S 044-09.21W, 02-10.31S 044-09.39W, 02-10.35S…Wrecks · 21 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 00:26Z; 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.