Punta Mejillones lighthouse light in eastern Caribbean Sea, Venezuela, at 10-42.20N 062-08.40W is discontinued.
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 151/24
What this record establishes
Listed in force
The latest collected record lists this warning as active. This is the status of the notice, not a live observation of conditions at the location.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · VENEZUELA 0/24 092100Z FEB 24.. Issued 2024-02-09 21:39Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-29 01:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 10.703, -62.140. 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 Caribbean Sea →
- issued
- 2024-02-09 21:39Z
- status
- Listed in force
- authority
- VENEZUELA 0/24 092100Z FEB 24.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- VENEZUELA
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 10.703, -62.140
- nearest port
- Point Lisas · 43 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
EASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA. VENEZUELA. DNC 14. FARO PUNTA MEJILLONES LIGHT 10-42.20N 062-08.40W DISCONTINUED.
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.
- 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.
Conditions at the position · now
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MET Norway · NOAA WaveWatch III · HYCOM · GEBCO 2020 · model data at the centroid, not an observation
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
87 within 180 nm since 1999 · 11 in the last 12 months · 11 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.
- Trinidad and tobago2026-09-21
- Cabo negro light in 11-10.46N 063-53.05W2026-09-11
- Trinidad and tobago2026-09-08
- Trinidad and tobago2026-07-09
- Trinidad and tobago2026-06-18
- Punta palanquete light 10-49.90N 064-12.60W unlit2026-05-15
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
- Trinidad and tobagoNav aids · 22.8 nm
- Trinidad and tobagoWrecks · 36.7 nm
- Trinidad and tobagoNav aids · 49.2 nm
- Trinidad and tobagoNav aids · 64.4 nm
- Isla testigo grande light 11-22.90N 063-07.20W unlitNav aids · 70.7 nm
- Trinidad and tobagoNav aids · 75.8 nm
- Trinidad and tobagoNav aids · 80.9 nm
- Trinidad and tobagoCable ops · 103.1 nm
- Hazardous operations in progress until further notice in areas bound by: a. 10-59.88N 064-17.05W, 11-11.68N…Exercises · 114.4 nm
- Trinidad and tobagoSurveys · 115 nm
- Punta charagato light 10-50.48N 064-09.38W unlitNav aids · 119.2 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
138 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-29 01:23Z; 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.