Surveys

Stopping, anchoring, flat fishing, dredging, and navigating with paid out anchor chain is prohibited 22 may…

Sea of Okhotsk · HYDROPAC 915/06

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2006-08-23 00:00Z

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) · VLADIVOSTOK 68/06 17 MAY 06.. Issued 2006-05-17 12:07Z. 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
Sea of Okhotsk. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Sea of Okhotsk →

issued
2006-05-17 12:07Z
status
Archived notice
authority
VLADIVOSTOK 68/06 17 MAY 06.
issued by
VLADIVOSTOK
sea
Sea of Okhotsk
position
52.440, 143.375
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. STOPPING, ANCHORING, FLAT FISHING, DREDGING,
   AND NAVIGATING WITH PAID OUT ANCHOR CHAIN IS
   PROHIBITED 22 MAY THRU 22 AUG IN AREA BOUND BY
   52-23-12N 143-23-04E, 52-28-00N 143-17-12E,
   52-28-36N 143-17-26E, 52-28-42N 143-20-24E,
   52-27-06N 143-27-09E, 52-26-18N 143-27-09E,
   52-24-00N 143-24-51E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 23 AUG.

Reading this warning

Dredging
A dredger is deepening a channel or moving sediment, often with floating or submerged pipelines to the shore.
Area bound by
Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · survey operations

138 within 180 nm since 2000 · 5 in the last 12 months · 2 listed in force now

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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

56 survey operations listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-04 00:36Z; source collection times vary.

Surveys

Hydrographic and scientific survey vessels, often towing long arrays. All current survey operations →

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.