Cable ship Ile de Re is laying submarine cable in the Taiwan Strait until further notice.
South China Sea · NAVAREA XI 329/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-09-05 00:21Z
This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.
- Source and dates
- Japan Coast Guard JHOD NAVAREA XI · Japan Coast Guard (JHOD). Issued 2026-07-21 18:00Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:42Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 14:24Z. 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
- Submarine cable laying works by c/s ile de re concludedlater cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the South China Sea →
- issued
- 2026-07-21 18:00Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- authority
- Japan Coast Guard (JHOD)
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- issued by
- JAPAN COAST GUARD
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 23.973, 118.895
- vessel
- C/S ILE DE RE · 31 messages
- nearest port
- Xiamen · 56 nm
- source
- Japan Coast Guard JHOD NAVAREA XI · first seen 2026-08-17 13:42Z
Original warning text
TAIWAN STRAIT. SUBMARINE CABLE LAYING WORKS BY C/S ILE DE RE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. IN VICINITY OF LINE JOINING 24-22.09N 118-19.49E 24-19.57N 118-23.58E 24-18.09N 118-29.18E 24-17.92N 118-31.73E 24-10.52N 118-39.62E 24-03.97N 118-46.53E 23-55.57N 118-57.99E 23-46.55N 119-08.15E 23-39.09N 119-15.28E 23-37.22N 119-19.19E 23-35.38N 119-26.73E 23-34.89N 119-28.03E.
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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · cable & pipeline work
96 within 180 nm since 1999 · 2 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 ile de re in vicinity of trackline joining…2026-07-21
- Cable operations in progress until further notice by cableship peter faber in area bound by 21-23.87N…2024-09-22
- Cable operations 261600Z jun to until further notice by cableship lodbrog in area bound by 25-47.10N…2022-06-23
- Cable operations 281600Z may until further notice by cableship lodbrog in area bound by 22-09.7N 117-43.8E,…2021-05-28
- Cable operations 220400Z may until further notice by cableship lodbrog in area bound by 22-07.7N 117-30.8E,…2021-05-20
- Cable operations 111600Z may until further notice by cableship lodbrog in area bound by 25-32.9N 121-28.3E,…2021-05-11
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
25 cable & pipeline work listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-29 10:54Z; 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.