Cable operations by vessel Rebecca continue until 15 September in eastern Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka; wide berth requested.
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 2323/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-09-08 17:45Z
This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-08-13 01:29Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-31 19:32Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Indian Ocean. The map shows the reported line or operation extent; it is not a vessel track. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2026-08-13 01:29Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-09-16 00:01Z
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- 5.128, 87.123
- vessel
- M/V REBECCA · 100 messages
- nearest port
- Trincomalee · 408 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
EASTERN INDIAN OCEAN.
SRI LANKA.
1. CABLE OPERATIONS IN PROGRESS UNTIL 15 SEP
BY M/V REBECCA ALONG TRACKLINES JOINING:
A. 05-04.98N 090-28.58E, 04-57.97N 090-25.88E,
05-00.77N 089-51.21E.
B. 05-03.99N 089-06.15E, 05-13.74N 086-20.45E.
C. 05-15.10N 085-58.04E, 05-16.07N 085-37.21E.
D. 05-06.29N 082-00.53E, 05-07.68N 081-23.35E.
WIDE BERTH REQUESTED.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 160001Z SEP 26.Reading this warning
- Cable operations
- A ship is laying, burying or repairing a submarine cable, usually along a stated route.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
3 within 180 nm since 2001 · 1 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.
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
23 cable & pipeline work listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 05:42Z; 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.