Cable operations in progress until 15 may by cableship ile de aix fici in area bound by 22-05.00N…
Red Sea · HYDROPAC 1317/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-04-24 15:17Z
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 IX 172/23 201530Z APR 23.. Issued 2023-04-20 16:35Z. 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
- Red Sea. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Cable operations 291400Z mar to 152300Z may by cableship ile de aix in area bound by 22-05.00N 038-04.00E,…cancelled by this notice
- Cancel HYDROPAC 1317/23 and this msg, operations completedlater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2023-04-20 16:35Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-05-16 00:01Z
- authority
- NAVAREA IX 172/23 201530Z APR 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IX · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Red Sea
- position
- 20.771, 37.718
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
RED SEA. SUDAN. DNC 10. 1. CABLE OPERATIONS IN PROGRESS UNTIL 15 MAY BY CABLESHIP ILE DE AIX FICI IN AREA BOUND BY 22-05.00N 038-04.00E, 22-05.00N 037-17.00E, 19-34.00N 037-15.00E, 19-34.00N 038-16.00E. ONE MILE BERTH REQUESTED. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1066/23. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 160001Z MAY 23.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · cable & pipeline work
15 within 180 nm since 2003 · 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.
- Cable operations 291400Z mar to 152300Z may by cableship ile de aix in area bound by 22-05.00N 038-04.00E,…2023-03-29
- Cable operations 16 thru 20 jan by cableship ile de brehat along trackline joining 22-04.63N 038-01.27E,…2023-01-14
- Cable operations in progress until 15 jan by cableship ile d' aix along trackline joining 21-33.48N…2023-01-12
- Cable repair operations 16 jun until further notice by cableship raymond croze with submersible within 1000…2016-06-15
- Cable laying operations 24 mar thru 18 apr by cableship ile de brehat along trackline joining 25-11.33N…2016-03-22
- Cable laying operations in progress until 22 jul by cableship niwa along trackline joining 21-35.27N…2011-07-15
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 2026-10-01 22:20Z; 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.