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) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 17:00Z | 2026-10-10 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.
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
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
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.