Nav aids

The Ponta do Trapia light at 02-51.77S 040-51.63W has its range reduced to ten miles.

South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 703/24

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-08-14 18:10Z

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 broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · NAVAREA V COASTAL 208/24 041232Z APR 24.. Issued 2024-04-04 13:00Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:50Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: South Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is -2.863, -40.861. 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 13:00Z
status: Cancelled notice
authority: NAVAREA V COASTAL 208/24 041232Z APR 24.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA V · named as the source of this relay
issued by: NAVAREA V COASTAL
sea: South Atlantic Ocean
position: -2.863, -40.861
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

WESTERN SOUTH ATLANTIC.
BRAZIL.
DNC 01.
PONTA DO TRAPIA LIGHT 02-51.77S 040-51.63W
RANGE REDUCED TO TEN MILES.

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.

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

111 within 180 nm since 1998 · 2 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.

Jericoacoara light 02-47.28S 040-29.98W unlit2026-08-20
Ponta de mucuripe light 03-43.58S 038-28.30W unreliable until 15 feb 272026-08-19
Santana light 02-16.23S 043-37.43W unlit until 03 dec2024-06-06
Jericoacoara light in 02-47.28S 040-29.98W unlit until 29 sep2024-04-02
Mundau light 03-10.58S 039-21.72W unlit until 17 jul2024-01-19
Jericoacoara light 02-47.28S 040-29.98W unlit until 17 apr 242023-10-20

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 06:50Z; 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.