Vessel SW BLY conducting seismic survey towing twelve 4.5 nm cables near 12-47S 127-35E, requesting 7 nm astern and 3 nm sides and ahead clearance.
Timor Sea · AUSCOAST 266/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-09-25 02:08Z
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
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority NAVAREA X + AUSCOAST (CC BY 4.0) · Australian Maritime Safety Authority — JRCC Australia (NAVAREA X coordinator). Issued 2026-08-05 09:49Z. First collected 2026-08-18 09:33Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-25 01:53Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Timor Sea. The parsed report position is -13.005, 128.181. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2026-08-05 09:49Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- authority
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority — JRCC Australia (NAVAREA X coordinator)
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA X
- issued by
- JRCC AUSTRALIA
- sea
- Timor Sea
- position
- -13.005, 128.181
- nearest port
- Wyndham · 147 nm
- source
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority NAVAREA X + AUSCOAST (CC BY 4.0) · first seen 2026-08-18 09:33Z
Original warning text
SPECIAL PURPOSE VESSEL SW BLY / C6ZD3 / 311052800 CONDUCTING SEISMIC SURVEY TOWING TWELVE 4.5 NM CABLES IN AN AREA BOUNDED: 12-47.76S 127-35.15E 12-38.08S 127-44.03E 12-38.27S 128-06.05E 13-18.37S 128-53.75E 13-38.87S 128-35.38E CLEARANCE REQUESTED 7.0 NM ASTERN AND 3.0 NM ON SIDES AND AHEAD.
Reading this warning
- Seismic survey
- A survey that maps the rock beneath the seabed with sound pulses from air guns, recorded on streamers kilometres long.
- Tow / towing
- A vessel towing another vessel, a barge or a structure — slow, hard to manoeuvre, and with a long line between.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · cable & pipeline work
18 within 180 nm since 2000 · 1 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.
- Pipeline operations in progress until further notice by M/V audacia along trackline joining 12-19.91S…2025-01-01
- Cable operations in progress until 12 may by cableship reliance in area bound by 11-30.7S 126-26.8E,…2021-05-05
- Underwater operations in progress until further notice by cableship ile de batz in 12-14S 130-33E2016-09-08
- Cable laying operations in progress until further notice by cableship ile de batz in 12-06.2S 130-13.1E2016-09-07
- Underwater operations in progress until further notice by cableship ile de batz in 11-46.4S 129-12.4E2016-09-06
- Underwater operations in progress until further notice by cableship ile de batz along trackline between…2016-09-04
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
22 cable & pipeline work listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-25 15:26Z; source collection times vary.
Cable ops
Cable laying, pipeline and seismic operations. All current cable & pipeline work →
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.