Nav aids

Arica Radio's digital selective calling medium frequency service is off air at 18-29.10S 070-19.16W in Chile.

South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 799/25

What this record establishes

Listed in force

The latest collected record lists this warning as active. This is the status of the notice, not a live observation of conditions at the location.

Source and dates: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2025-03-28 03:49Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-10-01 05:32Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: South Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is -18.485, -70.319. 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: 2025-03-28 03:49Z
status: Listed in force
sea: South Pacific Ocean
position: -18.485, -70.319
nearest port: Arica · 1 nm
source: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

EASTERN SOUTH PACIFIC.
CHILE.
DNC 07.
ARICA RADIO 18-29.10S 070-19.16W DSC MF
SERVICE 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.
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.
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.
Inoperative / unreliable / off air: An aid or radio service is not working as charted or published.

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Conditions at the position · now

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MET Norway · NOAA WaveWatch III · HYCOM · GEBCO 2020 · model data at the centroid, not an observation

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

57 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 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.

NAVTEX station mollendo (w) 17-00.30S 072-01.87W off air2025-05-16
NAVTEX station mollendo (w) 17-00.00S 072-02.00W off air2025-02-07
NAVTEX station mollendo (w) 17-00.30S 072-01.90W off air2024-09-05
NAVTEX station mollendo (w) 17-00.30S 072-01.90W off air2024-05-02
NAVTEX station mollendo (w) 17-00.30S 072-01.90W off air2024-03-21
NAVTEX station mollendo (w) 17-00.30S 072-01.90W off air2024-02-09

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

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 05:37Z; 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.