Ile de penfret light 47-43.30N 003-57.20W range reduced to 11 miles until 02 apr
Bay of Biscay · HYDROLANT 674/24
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2024-04-03 00:01Z
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) · AVURNAV BREST 92/24 011655Z APR 24.. Issued 2024-04-01 17:18Z. 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
- Bay of Biscay. The parsed report position is 47.722, -3.953. 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
Current notices and reporting history in the Bay of Biscay →
- issued
- 2024-04-01 17:18Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2024-04-03 00:01Z
- authority
- AVURNAV BREST 92/24 011655Z APR 24.
- issued by
- AVURNAV BREST
- sea
- Bay of Biscay
- position
- 47.722, -3.953
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
BAY OF BISCAY. FRANCE. DNC 08. 1. ILE DE PENFRET LIGHT 47-43.30N 003-57.20W RANGE REDUCED TO 11 MILES UNTIL 02 APR. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 030001Z APR 24.
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.
- 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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
746 within 180 nm since 1997 · 3 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.
- Aids to navigation2026-08-29
- Les pierres noires lighthouse 48-18.60N 004-54.80W unlit2026-08-29
- Fowey light 50-19.60N 004-38.90W unreliable2026-07-27
- Mf r/t and dsc services at scillies site 49-55.70N 006-18.20W off air2024-09-05
- NAVTEX station corsen (w) 48-28.00N 005-03.00W off air2024-09-01
- Le stiff light 48-28.46N 005-03.37W unlit2024-07-22
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
138 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 03:35Z; 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.