Surveys

Underwater operations 300600Z to 301800Z mar within 1000 yards of 44-02-30N 009-48-00E

Ligurian Sea · HYDROLANT 611/99

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 1999-03-30 00:00Z

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). Issued 1999-03-29 22:48Z. 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
Ligurian Sea. The parsed report position is 44.042, 9.800 with a 0.5 nm radius. 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 Ligurian Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
1999-03-30 06:00Z1999-03-30 18:00Z—12 h

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

issued
1999-03-29 22:48Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
1999-03-30 19:00Z
sea
Ligurian Sea
position
44.042, 9.800 · r 0.5 nm
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. UNDERWATER OPERATIONS 300600Z TO 301800Z MAR WITHIN
   1000 YARDS OF 44-02-30N 009-48-00E. WIDE BERTH REQUESTED.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 301900Z MAR.

Reading this warning

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.
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 · survey operations

173 within 180 nm since 1998 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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23

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

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

Worldwide in the collected sources

55 survey operations listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 05:13Z; source collection times vary.

Surveys

Hydrographic and scientific survey vessels, often towing long arrays. All current survey operations →

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.