Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Curacao medium frequency digital selective calling services are unreliable, and NAVAREA IV 855/22 is cancelled.
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 856/22
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-08-14 18:10Z
This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · JRCC CURACAO 0/22 261355Z AUG 22.. Issued 2022-08-26 14:19Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:50Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 12.167, -68.867. 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
- Jrcc curacao 56-30.00N 006-57.00W mf dsc services unreliablecancelled by this notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Caribbean Sea →
- issued
- 2022-08-26 14:19Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- authority
- JRCC CURACAO 0/22 261355Z AUG 22.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- JRCC CURACAO
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 12.167, -68.867
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
CARIBBEAN SEA. VENEZUELA. 1. JRCC CURACAO 12-10.00N 068-52.00W MF DSC SERVICES UNRELIABLE. 2. CANCEL NAVAREA IV 855/22.
Reading this warning
- RCC / JRCC (Rescue Coordination Centre)
- The centre that organises search and rescue in its region; warnings ask ships to send their reports there.
- 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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- NAVAREA
- One of the 21 ocean areas of the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service, each with a coordinator that broadcasts long-range warnings.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
58 within 180 nm since 1998 · 5 in the last 12 months · 9 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.
- Guaranao light 11-40.00N 070-12.80W unlit2026-08-17
- Cable buoy established in 12-28.30N 069-45.10W2026-07-26
- Punta perret light 11-47.68N 071-20.37W unlit2026-05-15
- Cayo noroeste light 11-13.31N 068-26.28W unlit2025-12-17
- Cabo negro light 11-30.15N 069-33.34W unlit2025-10-31
- La guaira light 10-36.25N 066-56.71W established2025-07-29
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
- Klein curacao light 11-59.4N 068-38.6W unlitNav aids · 16.9 nm
- Klein bonaire light 12-09.37N 068-19.61W unlitNav aids · 31.7 nm
- Cabo negro light 11-30.15N 069-33.34W unlitNav aids · 56.8 nm
- Cayo noroeste light 11-13.31N 068-26.28W unlitNav aids · 62.1 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
138 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 00:59Z; 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.