Nav aids

Dgps station at girdle ness light 57-08N 002-02W inoperative 220900Z to 221300Z aug

North Sea · HYDROLANT 1857/02

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2002-08-22 14:00Z

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) · WZ 1325/02 220503Z AUG 02; MRCC GRIS NEZ AOR-E EGC#519 220746Z AUG 02; CTG 84.1 212330Z AUG 02. Issued 2002-08-22 08:10Z. 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
North Sea. The parsed report position is 57.133, -2.033. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2002-08-22 09:00Z2002-08-22 13:00Z—4 h

Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.

issued
2002-08-22 08:10Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2002-08-22 14:00Z
authority
WZ 1325/02 220503Z AUG 02; MRCC GRIS NEZ AOR-E EGC#519 220746Z AUG 02; CTG 84.1 212330Z AUG 02
issued by
WZ
sea
North Sea
position
57.133, -2.033
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

CHART 35100 (14TH ED).
1. DGPS STATION AT GIRDLE NESS LIGHT 57-08N 002-02W
   INOPERATIVE 220900Z TO 221300Z AUG.
2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 1840/02(GEN) AND 1852/02(38).
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 221400Z AUG.

Reading this warning

Chart reference
The number of the nautical chart on which the reported position lies.
GNSS / GPS
Satellite positioning — GPS and other systems — and the testing, jamming and interference that make it unreliable in an area.
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.
Date-time group (DTG)
A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROLANT
The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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

2085 within 180 nm since 1998 · 9 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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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

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 18:16Z; source collection times vary.

Nav aids

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

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