Cable operations are underway in the Mediterranean Sea off Sicily until 7 October, with a two-mile berth requested near the listed positions.
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin · HYDROLANT 1923/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-09-28 16:45Z
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 in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-09-28 07:42Z. First collected 2026-09-28 19:32Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-29 03:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin. The parsed report position is 36.233, 15.826. 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 Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin →
- issued
- 2026-09-28 07:42Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-10-07 11:00Z
- sea
- Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
- position
- 36.233, 15.826
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-28 19:32Z
Original warning text
MEDITERRANEAN SEA. SICILY. 1. CABLE OPERATIONS IN PROGRESS UNTIL 071000Z OCT IN: A. 36-12.78N 015-52.58E. B. 36-14.00N 015-49.20E. C. 36-15.14N 015-46.90E. TWO MILE BERTH REQUESTED. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 071100Z OCT 26.
Reading this warning
- 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · cable & pipeline work
109 within 180 nm since 1999 · 2 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.
- Submarine cable and rov works days 280000 UTC sep 26 to 071000 UTC oct 26 at points: 36-12.78N 015-52.58E…2026-09-28
- Cable operations 211800Z to 302200Z apr by cableship rebecca along tracklines joining: a. 37-44.50N…2023-04-21
- Cable operations 23 mar thru 11 apr by cableship antonio meucci in area bound by 36-12.00N 014-59.00E,…2021-03-22
- Cable operations in progress until 28 feb 21 by M/V msv ocean intervention II in areas bound by: a.…2020-12-02
- Cable operations from 060500Z to 280500Z nov by cableship pierre de fermat with submersible in area bound by…2020-11-04
- Cable operations 280001Z apr to 042359 may by M/V polar king in vicinity of trackline joining 36-33.28N…2020-04-27
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
25 cable & pipeline work listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-29 03:18Z; 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.