Nav aids

A data buoy is temporarily established in the South Atlantic off Brazil at 21-34.20S 040-43.62W until 13 April 2027.

South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 746/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-08-21 15:40Z

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 2026-04-14 09:28Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-23 15:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
South Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is -21.570, -40.727. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Related notices and cancellation links

Current notices and reporting history in the South Atlantic Ocean →

issued
2026-04-14 09:28Z
status
Cancelled notice
self-cancels
2027-04-14 00:01Z
sea
South Atlantic Ocean
position
-21.570, -40.727
nearest port
Vitoria · 78 nm
source
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

SOUTH ATLANTIC.
BRAZIL.
1. ODAS BUOY TEMPORARILY ESTABLISHED
   UNTIL 13 APR 27 IN 21-34.20S 040-43.62W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 140001Z APR 27.

Reading this warning

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.

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

334 within 180 nm since 1998 · 6 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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26

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

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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

Worldwide in the collected sources

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 19:44Z; 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.