Cable ops

Underwater operations 040001Z to 152359Z aug by cableship ile de brehat in area bound by 28-14.00S…

South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 2403/17

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2017-08-16 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 V COASTAL S 608/17 032020Z AUG 17.. Issued 2017-08-03 20:38Z. 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: South Atlantic Ocean. 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 South Atlantic Ocean →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)	closes (UTC)	local	length
2017-08-04 00:01Z	2017-08-15 23:59Z	—	287 h 58

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

issued: 2017-08-03 20:38Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2017-08-16 01:00Z
authority: NAVAREA V COASTAL S 608/17 032020Z AUG 17.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA V · named as the source of this relay
issued by: NAVAREA V COASTAL S
sea: South Atlantic Ocean
position: -31.827, -46.653
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN SOUTH ATLANTIC.
BRAZIL-SOUTH COAST.
DNC 01.
1. UNDERWATER OPERATIONS 040001Z TO 152359Z AUG BY
   CABLESHIP ILE DE BREHAT IN AREA BOUND BY
   28-14.00S 044-39.20W, 29-24.70S 044-50.81W,
   29-37.90S 044-46.20W, 34-09.10S 047-54.40W,
   36-02.50S 049-39.00W.
   WIDE BERTH REQUESTED.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 160100Z AUG 17.

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.
Underwater operations: Divers or remotely operated vehicles are working below a vessel that cannot easily move out of the way.
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.
Cable operations: A ship is laying, burying or repairing a submarine cable, usually along a stated route.
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

37 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 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.

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

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

23 cable & pipeline work listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 20:31Z; 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.