Racons inoperative: 1. nga chart 62195 (7TH ed)
Gulf of Suez · HYDROPAC 1907/08
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2008-10-19 09:21Z
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 IX 195/08 290851Z SEP 08.. Issued 2008-09-29 11:38Z. 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
- Gulf of Suez. The parsed report position is 29.031, 32.745. 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
- Racons inoperative: 1. nga chart 62191 (15TH ed)later cancellation notice
- issued
- 2008-09-29 11:38Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA IX 195/08 290851Z SEP 08.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IX · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Gulf of Suez
- position
- 29.031, 32.745
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
RACONS INOPERATIVE: 1. NGA CHART 62195 (7TH ED). A. RAS ABU DARAG LIGHT 29-22.9N 032-33.8E. B. RAS ZAFARANA LIGHT 29-06.7N 032-39.8E. 2. NGA CHART 62191 (15TH ED). RAS DIB LIGHT 28-01.8N 033-24.6E. 3. NGA CHART 62194 (8TH ED). AIN SUKHNA LIGHT 29-36.1N 032-20.5E.
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.
- Inoperative / unreliable / off air
- An aid or radio service is not working as charted or published.
- Chart reference
- The number of the nautical chart on which the reported position lies.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
88 within 180 nm since 1998 · 0 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.
- All navigational aids at platform morgan 5, 28-13.44N 033-25.30E inoperative until 12 nov2016-10-24
- All navigational aids at platform morgan 5, 28-13.44N 033-25.30E inoperative until 10 oct2016-09-29
- RACON at platform morgan 72, 28-10.70N 033-26.64E inoperative until 29 sep2016-09-27
- RACON at platform morgan 72, 28-10.70N 033-26.64E inoperative until 26 aug2016-08-10
- All navigational aids at platform morgan 5, 28-13.44N 033-25.30E inoperative2016-07-26
- RACON at platform morgan 72, 28-10.70N 033-26.64E inoperative until 26 jul2016-07-15
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
146 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-25 08:43Z; 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.