Towing
Loran-c station soustons, rate 6731-X, off air 250700Z to 251500Z mar
HYDROLANT 472/04
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2004-03-25 16:00Z
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 II 105/04 230535Z MAR 04; NAVAREA III 146/04 231554Z MAR 04; NAVAREA VI 95/04 231400Z MAR 04. Issued 2004-03-23 18:45Z. 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
- No named location parsed. No usable coordinates were parsed; a location-based nearby search is unavailable. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Hazardous operations 0800Z to 1100Z daily 23 and 24 mar in area bound by 43-33.0N 015-57.7E, 43-28.0N…cancelled by this notice
- F/V sagrado corazon adrift in 40-35S 059-35Wcancelled by this notice
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-03-25 07:00Z | 2004-03-25 15:00Z | — | 8 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2004-03-23 18:45Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2004-03-25 16:00Z
- authority
- NAVAREA II 105/04 230535Z MAR 04; NAVAREA III 146/04 231554Z MAR 04; NAVAREA VI 95/04 231400Z MAR 04
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. LORAN-C STATION SOUSTONS, RATE 6731-X, OFF AIR 250700Z TO 251500Z MAR. 2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 448/04(54). 3. CANCEL HYDROLANT 461/04(23,24), VESSEL IN TOW. 4. CANCEL THIS MSG 251600Z MAR.
Reading this warning
- 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.
- Tow / towing
- A vessel towing another vessel, a barge or a structure — slow, hard to manoeuvre, and with a long line between.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm
No parsed position is available for this comparison.
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 tows listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 09:27Z; source collection times vary.
Towing
Vessels under tow with long or unlit tow lines. All current tows →
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.