Fog signal at wind turbine A01 51-26.47N 001-34.64E inoperative
Gulf of Guinea · HYDROLANT 2835/16
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2016-11-07 19:05Z
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 1246/16 281255Z OCT 16.. Issued 2016-10-28 13:26Z. 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
- Gulf of Guinea. The parsed report position is 1.857, 1.577. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Thanet wind farm turbine fog signals 51-26N 001-38E unreliablelater cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Gulf of Guinea →
- issued
- 2016-10-28 13:26Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- WZ 1246/16 281255Z OCT 16.
- issued by
- WZ
- sea
- Gulf of Guinea
- position
- 1.857, 1.577
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
NORTH SEA. ENGLAND-SOUTHEAST COAST. DNC 20. CHART 37140. FOG SIGNAL AT WIND TURBINE A01 51-26.47N 001-34.64E 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.
- Chart reference
- The number of the nautical chart on which the reported position lies.
- Offshore wind farm
- Construction or maintenance at an offshore wind farm: turbine foundations, jack-up vessels and export cables.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
4 within 180 nm since 2009 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 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.
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
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 16:59Z; 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.