Nav aids

Racon at south cardinal buoy at 01-03.61N 103-38.96E in South China Sea near Indonesia is temporarily removed.

South China Sea · HYDROPAC 3880/23

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 XI 444/23 110358Z DEC 23.. Issued 2023-12-11 06:55Z. 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
South China Sea. The parsed report position is 1.060, 103.649. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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Current notices and reporting history in the South China Sea →

issued
2023-12-11 06:55Z
status
Cancelled notice
authority
NAVAREA XI 444/23 110358Z DEC 23.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea
South China Sea
position
1.060, 103.649
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

SOUTH CHINA SEA.
INDONESIA.
DNC 03.
1. RACON AT SOUTH CARDINAL BUOY
   01-03.61N 103-38.96E TEMPORARILY REMOVED.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 3283/23.

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.
Off station / missing buoy
A buoy that is not in its charted position — dragged, damaged, missing or removed.
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.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROPAC
The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.

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

66 within 180 nm since 1999 · 2 in the last 12 months · 2 listed in force now

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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 2026-10-01 19:16Z; 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.