Cable ops

Cable operations 04 thru 06 jun by M/V pierre de fermat in area within one mile of 48-05.00N 005-45.00W

Celtic Sea · HYDROLANT 1213/23

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2023-06-07 00:01Z

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 II 154/23 311631Z MAY 23.. Issued 2023-05-31 17:21Z. 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
Celtic Sea. The parsed report position is 48.083, -5.750 with a 1.0 nm radius. 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 Celtic Sea →

issued
2023-05-31 17:21Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2023-06-07 00:01Z
authority
NAVAREA II 154/23 311631Z MAY 23.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
sea
Celtic Sea
position
48.083, -5.750 · r 1.0 nm
vessel
M/V PIERRE DE FERMAT · 8 messages
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

CELTIC SEA.
FRANCE.
DNC 20.
1. CABLE OPERATIONS 04 THRU 06 JUN BY M/V PIERRE DE FERMAT
   IN AREA WITHIN ONE MILE OF 48-05.00N 005-45.00W.
   WIDE BERTH REQUESTED.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 070001Z JUN 23.

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.
Cable operations
A ship is laying, burying or repairing a submarine cable, usually along a stated route.
Within a radius of
A circular area — every position within a stated distance of a point.
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.
Wide berth requested
Keep well clear — or, when a distance is given ("TWO MILE BERTH REQUESTED"), at least that far away.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Date-time group (DTG)
A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · cable & pipeline work

546 within 180 nm since 1998 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

98
00
05
10
15
20
24

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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D

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

23 cable & pipeline work listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 08:40Z; 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.