Submarine cable operations 210800Z aug to 040001Z sep by M/V rt rednet vicinity of trackline joining…
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 1352/01
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2001-09-04 01:01Z
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 XI 550/01 IOR EGC #3064 190800Z AUG 01. Issued 2001-08-19 09:00Z. 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 China Sea. The map shows the reported line or operation extent; it is not a vessel track. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
Current notices and reporting history in the South China Sea →
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-08-21 08:00Z | 2001-09-04 00:01Z | — | 328 h 01 |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2001-08-19 09:00Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2001-09-04 01:01Z
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 550/01 IOR EGC #3064 190800Z AUG 01
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 6.474, 108.078
- vessel
- M/V RT REDNET · 6 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. SUBMARINE CABLE OPERATIONS 210800Z AUG TO 040001Z SEP BY M/V RT REDNET VICINITY OF TRACKLINE JOINING 08-26.7N 110-07.3E, 07-27.9N 109-02.2E, 07-20.6N 108-45.7E, 04-22.0N 106-09.6E. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1340/01. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 040101Z SEP.
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.
- Track line joining
- Introduces a route through a series of positions — a cable route, a tow's track or a survey line.
- 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.
- 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
98 within 180 nm since 2001 · 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 until further notice by cableship teneo in 06-47.46N 109-19.20E2024-03-25
- Cable operations 28 jan thru 06 feb by c/s teneo in vicinity 06-47.46N 109-19.20E2024-01-27
- Cable operations 05 thru 14 jul by cableship teneo in vicinity of 07-30.0N 109-06.2E2021-07-04
- Cable operations 31 may to 10 jun by cableship teneo in vicinity of trackline joining 05-24.2N 107-23.7E,…2021-05-30
- Cable operations 18 feb to 20 may by cableship kddi cable infinity along tracklines joining: a. 04-06.6N…2021-02-17
- Cable operations in progress until 30 nov by cableship ile de re in vicinity of trackline joining 05-41.0N…2020-11-20
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
- Oil rig reported to exists in 07-42.1N 107-55.8EWrecks · 74.3 nm
- Oil rig reported to exists in 07-47.5N 108-12.0EWrecks · 79.5 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
23 cable & pipeline work listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 03:05Z; 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.