Nav aids

Radar beacon at Vilinjam Light, 08-22.97N 076-58.78E, Arabian Sea, India, is inoperative.

Laccadive Sea · HYDROPAC 1996/23

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-08-14 18:10Z

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 broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · NAVAREA VIII 574/23 151010Z JUN 23.. Issued 2023-06-15 10:43Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:50Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Laccadive Sea. The parsed report position is 8.383, 76.980. 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 Laccadive Sea →

issued: 2023-06-15 10:43Z
status: Cancelled notice
authority: NAVAREA VIII 574/23 151010Z JUN 23.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
sea: Laccadive Sea
position: 8.383, 76.980
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

ARABIAN SEA.
INDIA.
DNC 03.
RACON (O) AT VILINJAM LIGHT 08-22.97N 076-58.78E
INOPERATIVE.

Reading this warning

DNC (Digital Nautical Chart): A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
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

65 within 180 nm since 2000 · 4 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.

Yellow buoy established until 31 oct in 08-54.20N 076-05.51E2026-09-29
Yellow buoy established until 31 oct in 08-54.00N 076-01.80E2026-09-23
RACON at muttam point light 08-07.37N 077-19.05E inoperative2026-08-07
RACON at muttum point 08-07.00N 077-19.00E inoperative2026-01-13
Lidar buoy established until 26 dec in 07-54.16N 077-39.84E2024-09-26
Dgnss in 10-12.20N 076-09.46E off air 100001Z to 101830Z nov2023-11-08

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 23:34Z; 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.