Cable ops

Cable operations by a vessel run from 30 September to 10 October in the North Pacific, within one mile of set tracklines, with a two mile berth requested.

North Pacific Ocean · NAVAREA XII 680/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-09-28 16:45Z

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
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-09-27 21:28Z. First collected 2026-09-28 19:17Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-29 03:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
North Pacific Ocean. The map shows the reported line or operation extent; it is not a vessel track. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the North Pacific Ocean →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2026-09-30 17:00Z2026-10-10 19:00Z—242 h

Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.

issued
2026-09-27 21:28Z
status
Cancelled notice
self-cancels
2026-10-10 20:00Z
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XII
sea
North Pacific Ocean
position
41.515, -129.207
source
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-28 19:17Z

Original warning text

NORTH PACIFIC.
1. CABLE OPERATIONS 301700Z SEP TO 101900Z OCT
   BY M/V GRACE WITHIN ONE MILE OF TRACKLINES
   JOINING:
   A. 41-47.86N 129-26.54W, 41-53.00N 129-32.00W,
      42-05.70N 129-55.00W, 42-07.72N 130-01.09W.
   B. 41-47.86N 129-26.54W, 41-26.19N 129-02.85W.
   C. 40-58.20N 128-40.14W, 41-00.00N 128-41.90W,
      41-09.86N 128-50.47W, 41-16.16N 128-57.05W.
   D. 40-58.20N 128-40.14W, 40-44.53N 128-27.47W.
   TWO MILE BERTH REQUESTED.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 102000Z OCT 26.

Reading this warning

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.
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.
Wide berth requested
Keep well clear — or, when a distance is given ("TWO MILE BERTH REQUESTED"), at least that far away.
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 · cable & pipeline work

3 within 180 nm since 2003 · 2 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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25
26

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

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 03:17Z; 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.