Nav aids

RACON at albardao light 33-12.22S 052-42.47W inoperative until 30 sep

South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 698/24

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2024-10-01 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 206/24 040033Z APR 24.. Issued 2024-04-04 05:57Z. 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 -33.204, -52.708. 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: 2024-04-04 05:57Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2024-10-01 00:01Z
authority: NAVAREA V COASTAL 206/24 040033Z APR 24.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA V · named as the source of this relay
issued by: NAVAREA V COASTAL
sea: South Atlantic Ocean
position: -33.204, -52.708
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 07.
1. RACON AT ALBARDAO LIGHT 33-12.22S 052-42.47W
   INOPERATIVE UNTIL 30 SEP.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 010001Z OCT 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.
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

111 within 180 nm since 1999 · 4 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.

Sarita light 32-37.81S 052-25.76W unlit until 07 mar 272026-09-09
Radiobeacon at chui light 33-44.6S 053-22.5W off air until 17 jan 272026-07-22
Odas buoy temporarily established in 32-14.29S 051-58.16W2026-06-27
Odas buoy temporarily established in 32-32.46S 052-06.03W until 31 dec 272026-04-23
Chui light 33-44.60S 053-22.50W unlit until 12 feb 252024-08-17
Estreito light 31-52.88S 051-46.35W unlit until 09 dec2024-06-12

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

Odas buoy temporarily established in 32-14.29S 051-58.16WNav aids · 68.9 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 07:51Z; 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.