Cable ops

Underwater cable operations in progress until further notice by cableship vercors within two miles of…

Eastern China Sea · HYDROPAC 513/99

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 1999-06-15 08:50Z

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 351/99 10200Z JUN 99. Issued 1999-06-10 17:04Z. 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
Eastern China Sea. The parsed report position is 30.933, 123.625 with a 2.0 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 Eastern China Sea →

issued
1999-06-10 17:04Z
status
Archived notice
authority
NAVAREA XI 351/99 10200Z JUN 99
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea
Eastern China Sea
position
30.933, 123.625 · r 2.0 nm
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

UNDERWATER CABLE OPERATIONS IN PROGRESS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE BY
CABLESHIP VERCORS WITHIN TWO MILES OF 30-56.0N 123-37.5E.

Reading this warning

Cable operations
A ship is laying, burying or repairing a submarine cable, usually along a stated route.
Until further notice
The operation or danger has no scheduled end; the warning stays in force until a later message cancels it.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · cable & pipeline work

123 within 180 nm since 1998 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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23

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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M
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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 2026-09-25 08:10Z; 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.