Gulf of Khambhat
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 1077/14
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2015-07-03 21:26Z
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 VIII 241/14 161002Z APR 14.. Issued 2014-04-16 15:36Z. 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
- Arabian Sea. The parsed report position is 20.905, 71.527. 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
- Cancel HYDROPAC 1077/14, 1948/15, 2092/15, 2119/15later cancellation notice
- issued
- 2014-04-16 15:36Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA VIII 241/14 161002Z APR 14.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 20.905, 71.527
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
INDIA-WEST COAST. GULF OF KHAMBHAT. CHART 63080 RACON AT SAVAI BET LIGHT 20-54.3N 071-31.6E INOPERATIVE.
Reading this warning
- Chart reference
- The number of the nautical chart on which the reported position lies.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
192 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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.
- RACON at luhara point light 21-39.57N 072-32.89E inoperative2026-04-22
- Karumbhar island light 22-26.32N 069-35.23E unlit2026-01-14
- Mithapur buoy 22-24.75N 068-51.89E unlit2025-07-07
- Channel buoys temporarily removed in: a. mithapur 22-24.89N 068-51.90E2025-04-04
- North cardinal buoy 22-34.10N 069-18.35E missing2025-04-03
- Channel buoy number seven 20-56.00N 072-09.40E unlit2024-06-12
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
137 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 04:02Z; 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.