Nav aids

The Manzanillo entrance light at 09-22.90N 079-53.90W in the western Caribbean Sea near Panama has temporarily changed to white.

Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 504/25

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). Issued 2025-05-07 09:02Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-29 12:32Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 9.382, -79.898. 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: 2025-05-07 09:02Z
status: Listed in force
NAVAREA: NAVAREA IV
sea: Caribbean Sea
position: 9.382, -79.898
nearest port: Colon · 1 nm
source: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

WESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA.
PANAMA.
MANZANILLO ENTRANCE LIGHT 09-22.90N 079-53.90W
TEMPORARILY CHANGED TO WHITE.

Reading this warning

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.

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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

28 within 180 nm since 2000 · 2 in the last 12 months · 5 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.

Lm buoy 09-25.99N 079-49.78W missing2026-06-06
Manzanillo entrance west head light 09-22.90N 079-53.90W damaged2026-02-06
Starboard hand 4 buoy 09-23.52N 079-53.87W missing2025-06-24
Port hand 3 buoy 09-23.52N 079-53.75W missing2025-06-20
Cabo tiburon light 08-40.60N 077-21.50W inoperative2024-05-13
Buoy NO1 09-25.09N 079-49.50W destroyed2024-01-04

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

Manzanillo entrance west head light 09-22.90N 079-53.90W damagedNav aids · 0 nm
Starboard hand 4 buoy 09-23.52N 079-53.87W missingNav aids · 0.6 nm
Port hand 3 buoy 09-23.52N 079-53.75W missingNav aids · 0.6 nm
Lm buoy 09-25.99N 079-49.78W missingNav aids · 5.1 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

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

Record snapshot 2026-09-29 12:45Z; 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.