Nav aids

Racons inoperative: 1. nga chart 62195 (6TH ed)

Gulf of Suez · HYDROPAC 774/08

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 101/08 240902Z APR 08.. Issued 2008-04-24 11:20Z. 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 29.229, 32.763. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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issued
2008-04-24 11:20Z
status
Archived notice
authority
NAVAREA IX 101/08 240902Z APR 08.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA IX · named as the source of this relay
sea
Gulf of Suez
position
29.229, 32.763
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 (6TH ED).
   RAS RUAHMI LIGHT 28-43.2N 032-49.4E AND LIGHT UNLIT.
2. NGA CHART 62191 (15TH ED).
   RAS SHUKHEIR LIGHT 28-09.6N 033-20.4E AND LIGHT UNLIT.
3. NGA CHART 62194 (8TH ED).
   A. SC1 LIGHTFLOAT 29-39.5N 032-32.4E.
   B. QADD EL TAWILA LIGHT 29-47.8N 032-38.4E AND LIGHT UNLIT.
   C. RAS MUHAGGARA LIGHT 29-48.7N 032-28.3E AND LIGHT UNLIT.
4. CANCEL HYDROPAC 589/08.

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.
Unlit / extinguished
A light, buoy or structure that is not showing its charted light.
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

88 within 180 nm since 1998 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 20:34Z; source collection times vary.

Nav aids

Lights extinguished, buoys off station, RACON/NAVTEX outages. All current aids-to-navigation notices →

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