Nav aids

NAVTEX station vengurla point (j) 15-51.20N 073-37.00E off air 250230Z to 261230Z may

Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 1729/23

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2023-05-26 13:30Z

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 VIII 512/23 241008Z MAY 23.. Issued 2023-05-24 10:25Z. 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: Arabian Sea. The parsed report position is 15.853, 73.617. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Arabian Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)	closes (UTC)	local	length
2023-05-25 02:30Z	2023-05-26 12:30Z	—	34 h

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

issued: 2023-05-24 10:25Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2023-05-26 13:30Z
authority: NAVAREA VIII 512/23 241008Z MAY 23.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
sea: Arabian Sea
position: 15.853, 73.617
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

ARABIAN SEA.
INDIA.
DNC 03.
1. NAVTEX STATION VENGURLA POINT (J)
   15-51.20N 073-37.00E OFF AIR
   250230Z TO 261230Z MAY.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 261330Z MAY 23.

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.
NAVTEX: An automated medium-frequency radio service that sends coastal warnings as text to a small printer or screen on board.
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.
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

60 within 180 nm since 2002 · 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.

RACON at oyster rocks light 14-49.22N 074-03.63E inoperative2026-07-31
Malpe light 13-20.70N 074-41.00E unlit2026-01-07
Kukra island light 14-42.62N 074-14.36E unlit2025-12-23
NAVTEX station vengurla point 15-51.20N 073-37.00E, off air2025-05-23
Anjarle light 17-51.74N 073-04.93E range reduced to ten miles2024-06-27
RACON (d) 15-53.37N 073-27.75E inoperative2024-05-28

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 19:15Z; 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.