Cable laying operations 210001Z nov to 040001Z dec by cableship rene descartes vicinity of trackline joining…
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 3545/16
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2016-11-30 11:51Z
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 660/16 162333Z NOV 16.. Issued 2016-11-16 23:54Z. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-11-21 00:01Z | 2016-12-04 00:01Z | — | 312 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2016-11-16 23:54Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2016-12-04 01:01Z
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 660/16 162333Z NOV 16.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 2.689, 109.561
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTH CHINA SEA. MALAYSIA. DNC 11. 1. CABLE LAYING OPERATIONS 210001Z NOV TO 040001Z DEC BY CABLESHIP RENE DESCARTES VICINITY OF TRACKLINE JOINING 01-42.8N 110-21.2E, 01-46.3N 110-23.0E, 01-52.8N 110-22.0E, 01-58.2N 110-13.7E, 02-01.0N 109-52.3E, 02-41.0N 109-34.0E, 03-12.4N 109-07.0E, 03-52.4N 108-52.0E. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 3092/16. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 040101Z DEC 16.
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.
- 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
16 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 081700Z nov until further notice by cableship lodbrog in area bound by 02-06.50N…2022-11-07
- Cable operations in progress until further notice by cableship rene descartes in vicinity of trackline…2017-02-11
- Cable operations in progress until further notice by cableship rene descartes in vicinity of trackline…2017-02-05
- Cable operations in progress until 03 mar, alternate 04 thru 13 mar by cableship kddi pacific link in…2017-01-30
- Cable laying operations in progress until further notice by cableship rene descartes vicinity of trackline…2016-11-30
- Cable laying operations in progress until 240300Z nov by cableship rene descartes vicinity of trackline…2016-10-10
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
22 cable & pipeline work listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-26 16:15Z; 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.