NAVTEX station veraval (h) 20-54.6N 070-21.0E off air 170130Z to 181230Z jan
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 199/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-01-18 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 55/23 161018Z JAN 23.. Issued 2023-01-16 11:46Z. 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 20.910, 70.350. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-17 01:30Z | 2023-01-18 12:30Z | — | 35 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2023-01-16 11:46Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-01-18 13:30Z
- authority
- NAVAREA VIII 55/23 161018Z JAN 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 20.910, 70.350
- 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 VERAVAL (H) 20-54.6N 070-21.0E OFF AIR 170130Z TO 181230Z JAN. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 181330Z JAN 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.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
190 within 180 nm since 2000 · 2 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 luhara point light 21-39.57N 072-32.89E inoperative2026-04-22
- Karumbhar island light 22-26.32N 069-35.23E unlit2026-01-14
- Mithapur buoy 22-24.75N 068-51.89E unlit2025-07-07
- Channel buoys temporarily removed in: a. mithapur 22-24.89N 068-51.90E2025-04-04
- North cardinal buoy 22-34.10N 069-18.35E missing2025-04-03
- Channel buoy number seven 20-56.00N 072-09.40E unlit2024-06-12
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
138 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 03:00Z; 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.