Kuwait dgps station 29-07N 048-08E off air
Persian Gulf · HYDROPAC 136/03
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2003-01-29 12:40Z
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) · MENAS 6/03 26 JAN 03. Issued 2003-01-26 10:00Z. 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
- Persian Gulf. The parsed report position is 29.117, 48.133. 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
- Gunnery exercises 31 jan in 06-41N 121-23Elater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2003-01-26 10:00Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MENAS 6/03 26 JAN 03
- issued by
- MENAS
- sea
- Persian Gulf
- position
- 29.117, 48.133
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CHART 62432 (15TH ED). KUWAIT DGPS STATION 29-07N 048-08E OFF AIR.
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.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
43 within 180 nm since 1998 · 1 in the last 12 months · 1 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.
- Odas buoy relocated to 28-49.63N 050-42.93E2026-02-28
- Mooring buoy FL.Y.5S established in 28-42.31N 048-24.20E2025-02-07
- Al kubr light 29-04.30N 048-29.56E unlit2022-09-03
- Light, f wrg 14 meters 18 miles with sectors green 072-073, white 073-075, red 075-076 degrees, RACON (z)…2021-01-19
- Raz 26 buoy 27-35.60N 049-14.52E missing2019-12-25
- Al kubr light 29-04.3N 048-29.6E unlit2016-09-24
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
- Survey operations 10 aug until further notice by M/V vision 2 in: a. 29-03.09N 048-10.06ESurveys · 5.1 nm
- Dangerous wreck marked by buoy in 29-05.49N 048-22.09EWrecks · 12.4 nm
- Navigation prohibited until further notice in area within 600 meters of 28-52.49N 048-21.63ERestricted · 18.8 nm
- Met tower 28-46.0N 048-26.1E temporarily replaced by yellow buoy, FL(4) 15 sec 5MOther · 26.3 nm
- Barge dream 1 sank in 29-14.06N 048-41.22EWrecks · 29.9 nm
- Navigation prohibited until further notice in area within 600 meters of 29-13.10N 048-44.42ERestricted · 32.4 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
134 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 13:42Z; 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.