Nav aids

The radar beacon at Luhara Point Light (21 degrees 39.57 minutes north, 72 degrees 32.89 minutes east) in the Gulf of Khambhat, India, is inoperative.

Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 1203/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-09-23 14:45Z

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 2026-04-22 11:03Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-18 07:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Arabian Sea. The parsed report position is 21.660, 72.548. 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 Arabian Sea →

issued: 2026-04-22 11:03Z
status: Cancelled notice
sea: Arabian Sea
position: 21.660, 72.548
nearest port: Bhavnagar · 20 nm
source: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

GULF OF KHAMBHAT.
INDIA.
RACON AT LUHARA POINT LIGHT
21-39.57N 072-32.89E INOPERATIVE.

Reading this warning

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.

All warning terms →

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

143 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.

Karumbhar island light 22-26.32N 069-35.23E unlit2026-01-14
Channel buoy number seven 20-56.00N 072-09.40E unlit2024-06-12
NAVTEX station veraval (h) 20-54.60N 070-21.00E off air untl 221230Z sep2023-09-21
Pirothan island light 22-36.20N 069-57.20E unlit2023-07-24
Mungra reef light in 22-45.60N 070-11.00E unlit2023-07-05
NAVTEX station veraval (h) 20-54.6N 070-21.0E off air 170130Z to 181230Z jan2023-01-16

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

Hazardous operations 0230Z to 1130Z daily 28 thru 30 sep in area bound by 20-26.00N 072-27.00E, 20-26.00N…Exercises · 66.6 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 05:06Z; 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.