Nav aids

NAVTEX station malta (o) 35-59N 014-32E off air until further notice

Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin · HYDROLANT 1006/22

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2022-04-25 12:00Z

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 III 142/22 090007Z APR 22.. Issued 2022-04-09 06:54Z. 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
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin. The parsed report position is 35.983, 14.533. 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
2022-04-09 06:54Z
status
Archived notice
authority
NAVAREA III 142/22 090007Z APR 22.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
sea
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
position
35.983, 14.533
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
MALTA.
DNC 09.
1. NAVTEX STATION MALTA (O) 35-59N 014-32E
   OFF AIR UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
2. NAVIGATIONAL WARNINGS WILL BE TRANSMITTED BY
   VOICE ON MALTA VESSEL TRAFFIC SERVICE ON
   VHF CHANNEL 16 AT 1003Z, 1603Z AND 2103Z.

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.
NAVTEX
An automated medium-frequency radio service that sends coastal warnings as text to a small printer or screen on board.
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.
Until further notice
The operation or danger has no scheduled end; the warning stays in force until a later message cancels it.
VHF / channel 16
Very high frequency marine radio; channel 16 is the international distress, safety and calling channel.

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

147 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

Worldwide in the collected sources

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 22:25Z; 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.