Cable operations 280600Z nov to 032359Z dec by cableship lodbrog within ten miles of 20-30N 114-30E
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 3885/15
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2015-12-04 00:59Z
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 899/15 260530Z NOV 15.. Issued 2015-11-26 08:05Z. 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 20.500, 114.500 with a 10.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Current notices and reporting history in the South China Sea →
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-11-28 06:00Z | 2015-12-03 23:59Z | — | 137 h 59 |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2015-11-26 08:05Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2015-12-04 00:59Z
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 899/15 260530Z NOV 15.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 20.500, 114.500 · r 10.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTH CHINA SEA. DNC 23. 1. CABLE OPERATIONS 280600Z NOV TO 032359Z DEC BY CABLESHIP LODBROG WITHIN TEN MILES OF 20-30N 114-30E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 040059Z DEC 15.
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.
- Within a radius of
- A circular area — every position within a stated distance of a point.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · cable & pipeline work
54 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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 in progress until further notice by cableship peter faber in area bound by 21-39.50N…2023-03-27
- Cable operations in progress until further notice by cableship peter faber in area bound by 21-41.20N…2023-03-20
- Cable operations 092200Z feb until further notice by cableship lodbrog in area bound by 21-39.4N 114-22.7E,…2022-02-08
- Cable operations 31 oct thru 10 nov by c/s lodbrog in area bound by 21-04.1N 114-21.0E 21-04.2N 114-22.1E…2020-10-30
- Cable operations 130900Z to 201459Z may by cableship lodbrog in area bound by 21-53.2N 115-04.0E, 21-52.7N…2019-05-13
- Cable operations 071200Z to 142359Z may by cableship lodbrog in area bound by 22-11.3N 114-31.4E 22-10.4N…2019-05-07
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
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.