Nav aids

RACON at kavarat island light 10-33.6N 072-38.8E inoperative

Laccadive Sea · HYDROPAC 840/21

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2021-04-16 11:18Z

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 VIII 232/21 161059Z MAR 21.. Issued 2021-03-16 11:23Z. 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
Laccadive Sea. The parsed report position is 10.560, 72.647. 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
2021-03-16 11:23Z
status
Archived notice
authority
NAVAREA VIII 232/21 161059Z MAR 21.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
sea
Laccadive Sea
position
10.560, 72.647
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

ARABIAN SEA.
LAKSHADWEEP.
DNC 03.
RACON AT KAVARAT ISLAND LIGHT 10-33.6N 072-38.8E
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

58 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 23:39Z; source collection times vary.

Nav aids

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

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