Portland Ridge Light at 17-44.50N 077-09.50W in Jamaica is unlit.
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 441/22
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) · JAMAICA PORT AUTHORITY 0/20 061534Z MAY 22.. Issued 2022-05-07 03:54Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-10-01 05:02Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 17.742, -77.158. 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 Caribbean Sea →
- issued
- 2022-05-07 03:54Z
- status
- Listed in force
- authority
- JAMAICA PORT AUTHORITY 0/20 061534Z MAY 22.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- JAMAICA PORT AUTHORITY
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 17.742, -77.158
- nearest port
- Kingston · 24 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
CARIBBEAN SEA. JAMAICA. CHART 26220. PORTLAND RIDGE LIGHT 17-44.50N 077-09.50W UNLIT.
Reading this warning
- Chart reference
- The number of the nautical chart on which the reported position lies.
- 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.
- Unlit / extinguished
- A light, buoy or structure that is not showing its charted light.
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
12 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.
- Kingston entrance buoy no 4 17-54-45N 076-46-22W off station2021-02-02
- Portland ridge light 17-44.5N 077-09.5W unlit2020-10-12
- Discovery bay 1 buoy 18-29.9N 077-38.5W off station2020-07-06
- Morro de cuba light 19-58.1N 075-52.1W range temporarily reduced to seven miles2017-07-08
- Lights established: a. range light front, iso r 6 sec 9 miles in 17-50-06.2N 077-09-43.6W2016-12-02
- South negril point light 18-15.0N 078-21.6W unlit2016-01-12
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
138 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-29 11:03Z; 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.