Surveys

Stopping, anchoring, flat fishing, dredging, and navigating with paid out anchor chain is prohibited until…

Sea of Okhotsk · HYDROPAC 1664/05

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2005-10-31 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) · VLADIVOSTOK 208/05 05 OCT 05.. Issued 2005-10-05 10:57Z. 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
Sea of Okhotsk. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Sea of Okhotsk →

issued
2005-10-05 10:57Z
status
Archived notice
authority
VLADIVOSTOK 208/05 05 OCT 05.
issued by
VLADIVOSTOK
sea
Sea of Okhotsk
position
52.438, 143.375
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. STOPPING, ANCHORING, FLAT FISHING, DREDGING,
   AND NAVIGATING WITH PAID OUT ANCHOR CHAIN IS
   PROHIBITED UNTIL 30 OCT IN AREA BOUND BY
   52-23.12N 143-23.04E, 52-28.00N 143-17.12E,
   52-28.36N 143-17.26E, 52-28.42N 143-20.24E,
   52-27.06N 143-27.09E, 52-26.18N 143-27.09E,
   52-24.00N 143-24.51E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 31 OCT.

Reading this warning

Dredging
A dredger is deepening a channel or moving sediment, often with floating or submerged pipelines to the shore.
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.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Collected reports in this area · survey operations

138 within 180 nm since 2000 · 5 in the last 12 months · 2 listed in force now

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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

Worldwide in the collected sources

56 survey operations listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-04 01:16Z; 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.