Nav aids

Dsc station iquique 20-12.68S 070-09.22W off air

South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 261/20

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2020-01-31 14:45Z

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 XV 8/20 240217Z JAN 20.. Issued 2020-01-24 03:40Z. 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: South Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is -20.211, -70.154. 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 South Pacific Ocean →

issued: 2020-01-24 03:40Z
status: Archived notice
authority: NAVAREA XV 8/20 240217Z JAN 20.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA XV · named as the source of this relay
sea: South Pacific Ocean
position: -20.211, -70.154
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EASTERN SOUTH PACIFIC.
CHILE.
DNC 07.
DSC STATION IQUIQUE 20-12.68S 070-09.22W OFF AIR.

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.
DSC (Digital Selective Calling): The digital radio alert built into modern marine radios — one button sends a distress alert with the vessel's identity and position.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices

33 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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.

Dart II buoy 20-41.74S 073-16.23W temporarily removed2026-03-08
Arica radio 18-29.10S 070-19.16W dsc mf service off air2025-03-28
Boca del rio lighthouse 18-09.44S 070-40.20W unlit2023-05-06
Punta coles light 17-42.43S 071-22.86W unlit2022-09-20
Boca del rio light 18-09-40S 070-40-06W unlit2022-04-21
Boca del rio light 18-09.7S 070-40.1W inoperative2021-07-01

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

Arica radio 18-29.10S 070-19.16W dsc mf service off airNav aids · 104.1 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

134 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 00:04Z; 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.