Cable ops

Seismic survey in progress until 250100Z sep by M/V geo coral towing 12 9100 meter long cables in area…

Norwegian Sea · North Sea · HYDROLANT 2229/15

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2015-09-25 02:00Z

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 I 281/15 081345Z SEP 15.. Issued 2015-09-08 15:01Z. 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
Norwegian Sea · North Sea. No usable coordinates were parsed; a location-based nearby search is unavailable. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
issued
2015-09-08 15:01Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2015-09-25 02:00Z
authority
NAVAREA I 281/15 081345Z SEP 15.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA I · named as the source of this relay
vessel
M/V GEO CORAL · 58 messages
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

NORWEGIAN SEA.
NORTH SEA.
DNC 20.
1. SEISMIC SURVEY IN PROGRESS UNTIL 250100Z SEP
   BY M/V GEO CORAL TOWING 12 9100 METER
   LONG CABLES IN AREA BETWEEN
   60-50N 61-35N AND 001-30E 001-50E.
   EIGHT MILE BERTH REQUESTED.
2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 2111/15.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 250200Z SEP 15.

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.
Seismic survey
A survey that maps the rock beneath the seabed with sound pulses from air guns, recorded on streamers kilometres long.
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.
Towed array / streamer
Equipment towed a long way behind a vessel — sonar, a hydrophone cable, a sampling sled — invisible at the surface.
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.
Wide berth requested
Keep well clear — or, when a distance is given ("TWO MILE BERTH REQUESTED"), at least that far away.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROLANT
The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

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Worldwide in the collected sources

23 cable & pipeline work listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-04 04:41Z; 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.