Cable ops

Cable operations 28 jan thru 06 feb by c/s teneo in vicinity 06-47.46N 109-19.20E

South China Sea · HYDROPAC 324/24

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2024-02-02 12:04Z

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 33/24 270009Z JAN 24.. Issued 2024-01-27 01:18Z. 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 parsed report position is 6.791, 109.320. 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

Current notices and reporting history in the South China Sea →

issued
2024-01-27 01:18Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2024-02-07 00:01Z
authority
NAVAREA XI 33/24 270009Z JAN 24.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea
South China Sea
position
6.791, 109.320
vessel
C/S TENEO · 20 messages
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

SOUTH CHINA SEA.
DNC 11.
1. CABLE OPERATIONS 28 JAN THRU 06 FEB
   BY C/S TENEO IN VICINITY 06-47.46N 109-19.20E.
   WIDE BERTH REQUESTED.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 070001Z FEB 24.

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.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · cable & pipeline work

86 within 180 nm since 2001 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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24

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

22 cable & pipeline work listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-26 19:13Z; 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.