NAVTEX station karachi (p) 24-52.8N 067-09.9E inoperative
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 2392/21
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2021-10-27 15:26Z
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 IX 301/21 210832Z AUG 21.. Issued 2021-08-21 08:34Z. 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 24.880, 67.165. 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
- NAVTEX station karachi (p) 24-52.8N 067-09.9E inoperativelater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2021-08-21 08:34Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA IX 301/21 210832Z AUG 21.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IX · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 24.880, 67.165
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
ARABIAN SEA. PAKISTAN. DNC 03. 1. NAVTEX STATION KARACHI (P) 24-52.8N 067-09.9E INOPERATIVE. 2. KARACHI BROADCASTS WILL BROADCAST VIA SAFETYNET. 3. NAVIGATIONAL WARNINGS AVAILABLE ON WEBSITE WWW.PAKNAVY.GOV.PK/HYDRO.
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.
- Inmarsat-C / SafetyNET
- The satellite system that carries NAVAREA warnings to ships at sea, and the terminal number rescue centres give for reports.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
58 within 180 nm since 2001 · 3 in the last 12 months · 2 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.
- Fairway buoy 24-43.14N 066-55.86E missing2026-08-01
- Ormara lighthouse 25-11.10N 064-41.10E unlit2026-06-20
- Manora breakwater light 24-46.74N 066-58.96E unlit2026-03-28
- 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
- Ormara light 25-11.32N 064-41.26E unlit2024-08-27
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
- Wreck buoy 24-46.45N 066-57.09E missingWrecks · 13.3 nm
- Fairway buoy 24-43.14N 066-55.86E missingNav aids · 16 nm
- Hazardous operations 0300Z to 1300Z daily 26 aug, 02, 09, 16, 23 and 30 sep in area bound by 24-50.26N…Exercises · 33.6 nm
- Dangerous wreck in vicinity 23-51.80N 067-20.90EWrecks · 61.9 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
137 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 19:44Z; 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.