Nav aids

Raz 26 buoy 27-35.60N 049-14.52E missing

Persian Gulf · HYDROPAC 4251/19

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2019-12-27 11:42Z

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 445/19 251500Z DEC 19.. Issued 2019-12-25 15:24Z. 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 27.593, 49.242. 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 Persian Gulf →

issued: 2019-12-25 15:24Z
status: Archived notice
authority: NAVAREA IX 445/19 251500Z DEC 19.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA IX · named as the source of this relay
sea: Persian Gulf
position: 27.593, 49.242
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

PERSIAN GULF.
SAUDI ARABIA.
DNC 10.
RAZ 26 BUOY 27-35.60N 049-14.52E MISSING.

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.
Off station / missing buoy: A buoy that is not in its charted position — dragged, damaged, missing or removed.
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.

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

66 within 180 nm since 1998 · 4 in the last 12 months · 4 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.

Bh jacket light fl(r) 4 sec temporarily established in 26-38.41N 051-56.90E2026-08-07
Mooring buoy established in 26-38.47N 051-55.82E2026-07-26
Odas buoy relocated to 28-49.63N 050-42.93E2026-02-28
Wave rider buoy, fl 5 y 10 sec, temporarily established in 26-39.57N 051-57.22E2026-02-23
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

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

Met tower 28-46.0N 048-26.1E temporarily replaced by yellow buoy, FL(4) 15 sec 5MOther · 82.4 nm
Navigation prohibited until further notice in area within 600 meters of 28-52.49N 048-21.63ERestricted · 90 nm
Navigation prohibited until further notice in area within 600 meters of 29-13.10N 048-44.42ERestricted · 101.1 nm
Dangerous wreck marked by buoy in 29-05.49N 048-22.09EWrecks · 101.1 nm
Barge dream 1 sank in 29-14.06N 048-41.22EWrecks · 102.8 nm
Survey operations 10 aug until further notice by M/V vision 2 in: a. 29-03.09N 048-10.06ESurveys · 103.5 nm
Odas buoy relocated to 28-49.63N 050-42.93ENav aids · 107.5 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 19:40Z; 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.