Two mile long seismic cable adrift vicinity 09-36S 129-28E at 071030Z aug 01
Timor Sea · HYDROPAC 1264/01
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2001-08-14 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) · DTN 96/01 071140Z AUG 01. Issued 2001-08-07 14:02Z. 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
- Timor Sea. The parsed report position is -9.600, 129.467. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- 4.5 mile long seismic cable adrift vicinity 08-55.7S 130-20.0E at 041530Z augcancelled by this notice
- issued
- 2001-08-07 14:02Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- DTN 96/01 071140Z AUG 01
- issued by
- DTN
- sea
- Timor Sea
- position
- -9.600, 129.467
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. TWO MILE LONG SEISMIC CABLE ADRIFT VICINITY 09-36S 129-28E AT 071030Z AUG 01. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1252/01. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 14 AUG.
Reading this warning
- Seismic survey
- A survey that maps the rock beneath the seabed with sound pulses from air guns, recorded on streamers kilometres long.
- Adrift
- Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROPAC
- The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
- 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
16 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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.
- Pipeline operations in progress until further notice by M/V audacia along trackline joining 12-19.91S…2025-01-01
- Cable operations in progress until further notice by cableship ile d aix in area bound by 08-42.00S…2024-07-21
- Underwater operations in progress until further notice by cableship ile de batz in 12-14S 130-33E2016-09-08
- Cable laying operations in progress until further notice by cableship ile de batz in 12-06.2S 130-13.1E2016-09-07
- Underwater operations in progress until further notice by cableship ile de batz in 11-46.4S 129-12.4E2016-09-06
- Underwater operations in progress until further notice by cableship ile de batz along trackline between…2016-09-04
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
24 cable & pipeline work listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 00:07Z; 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.