Cable ops

Cable operations 072200Z to 212359Z may by M/V rebecca in area bound by 33-18N 029-36E, 33-02N 030-59E,…

Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin · HYDROLANT 1559/20

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2020-05-22 01:00Z

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 III 705/20 071202Z MAY 20.. Issued 2020-05-07 12:30Z. 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
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2020-05-07 22:00Z2020-05-21 23:59Z—337 h 59

Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.

issued
2020-05-07 12:30Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2020-05-22 01:00Z
authority
NAVAREA III 705/20 071202Z MAY 20.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
sea
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
position
32.734, 32.066
vessel
M/V REBECCA · 100 messages
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
ISRAEL.
DNC 10.
1. CABLE OPERATIONS 072200Z TO 212359Z MAY
   BY M/V REBECCA IN AREA BOUND BY
   33-18N 029-36E, 33-02N 030-59E,
   32-49N 031-33E, 32-44N 032-14E,
   32-31N 033-09E, 32-13N 034-07E.
   WIDE BERTH REQUESTED.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 220100Z MAY 20.

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.
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.
Area bound by
Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · cable & pipeline work

242 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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21

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

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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

25 cable & pipeline work listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-29 15:44Z; 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.