Nav aids

The radar beacon at Dolphin Nose Light in Bay of Bengal at 17-40.50N 083-17.70E is inoperative.

Bay of Bengal · HYDROPAC 1931/26

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 2026-07-06 10:46Z. 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: Bay of Bengal. The parsed report position is 17.675, 83.295. 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 Bay of Bengal →

issued: 2026-07-06 10:46Z
status: Cancelled notice
sea: Bay of Bengal
position: 17.675, 83.295
nearest port: Visakhapatnam · 1 nm
source: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

BAY OF BENGAL.
INDIA.
RACON AT DOLPHIN NOSE LIGHT IN 17-40.50N 083-17.70E.
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.

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

44 within 180 nm since 1999 · 3 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.

Pudimadaka light 17-29.27N 083-00.22E unlit2025-12-04
NAVTEX station vakalpudi (q) 17-00.80N 082-17.10E inoperative2025-11-03
Nagayalanka light 15-47.11N 080-59.22E unlit2023-05-02
RACON at narasapur light 16-19.02N 081-43.55E inoperative2022-08-09
NAVTEX station vakalpudi (q) 17-00.8N 082-16.6E off air2021-06-01
NAVTEX station vakalapudi (q) 17-00.8N 082-17.1E inoperative2020-07-30

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 2026-10-01 19:41Z; 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.