Underwater cable operations in progress until further notice by cableship vercors within two miles of…
Eastern China Sea · HYDROPAC 547/99
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 1999-06-25 01:09Z
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 373/99 192230Z JUN 99. Issued 1999-06-19 23:20Z. 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 31.097, 123.127 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.
Related notices and cancellation links
Current notices and reporting history in the Eastern China Sea →
- issued
- 1999-06-19 23:20Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 373/99 192230Z JUN 99
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Eastern China Sea
- position
- 31.097, 123.127 · r 2.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. UNDERWATER CABLE OPERATIONS IN PROGRESS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE BY CABLESHIP VERCORS WITHIN TWO MILES OF 31-05.8N 123-07.6E. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 530/99.
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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · cable & pipeline work
125 within 180 nm since 1998 · 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 06 jun by cableship peter faber in area bound by 33-48.60N 124-37.20E,…2023-05-27
- Cable operations 24 thru 30 may, alternate 31 may thru 02 jun by cableship kddi ocean link in area bound by…2023-05-23
- Cable operations 18 thru 23 nov, alternate 24 thru 29 nov by cableship fu hai along trackline joining…2021-11-17
- Cable operations 10 thru 15 nov, alternate 16 thru 21 nov by cableship fu hai along trackline joining…2021-11-09
- Cable operations 03 thru 10 nov, alternate 11 thru 16 nov by cableship fu hai in area bound by 29-53.5N…2021-11-01
- Cable operations 19 thru 23, alternate 24 thru 30 oct by cableship fu hai in area bound by 30-22.7N…2021-10-18
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
- Large buoy reported to exist in 31-00N 124-00EWrecks · 45.3 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.