Cable operations 130800Z to 232359Z dec by cableship ile de brehat in area between 35-55.0N 35-52.0N and…
Strait of Gibraltar · Morrocco · HYDROLANT 2929/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-12-24 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 II 393/12 111632Z DEC 12.. Issued 2012-12-11 17:38Z. 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
- Strait of Gibraltar · Morrocco. No usable coordinates were parsed; a location-based nearby search is unavailable. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-12-13 08:00Z | 2012-12-23 23:59Z | — | 255 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
- 2012-12-11 17:38Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2012-12-24 01:00Z
- authority
- NAVAREA II 393/12 111632Z DEC 12.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR. MORROCCO. 1. CABLE OPERATIONS 130800Z TO 232359Z DEC BY CABLESHIP ILE DE BREHAT IN AREA BETWEEN 35-55.0N 35-52.0N AND 005-52.0W 005-41.0W. WIDE BERTH REQUESTED. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 240100Z DEC 12.
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.
Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm
No parsed position is available for this comparison.
Worldwide in the collected sources
24 cable & pipeline work listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 03:59Z; 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.