Dgps station at ratnagiri light 16-59.2N 073-16.4E off air
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 704/03
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2003-05-02 14:00Z
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 225/03 231003Z APR 03. Issued 2003-04-23 13:45Z. 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 16.987, 73.273. 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
- issued
- 2003-04-23 13:45Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA VIII 225/03 231003Z APR 03
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 16.987, 73.273
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CHART 63100 (2ND ED). DGPS STATION AT RATNAGIRI LIGHT 16-59.2N 073-16.4E OFF AIR.
Reading this warning
- Chart reference
- The number of the nautical chart on which the reported position lies.
- GNSS / GPS
- Satellite positioning — GPS and other systems — and the testing, jamming and interference that make it unreliable in an area.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
75 within 180 nm since 2002 · 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 oyster rocks light 14-49.22N 074-03.63E inoperative2026-07-31
- 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
- NAVTEX station vengurla point (j) 15-51.20N 073-37.00E off air 250230Z to 261230Z may2023-05-24
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
- 6.2 meter depths reported in vicinity: a. 18-17.72N 072-55.18EWrecks · 81.1 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
134 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 18:40Z; 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.