Cable ops

Cable operations 21 thru 27 oct by cableship layla within three miles of trackline joining 16-14.60N…

Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 1199/23

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2023-10-24 16:42Z

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) · M/V LAYLA 0/23 171654Z OCT 23.. Issued 2023-10-17 17:26Z. 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
Caribbean Sea. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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issued
2023-10-17 17:26Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2023-10-28 00:01Z
authority
M/V LAYLA 0/23 171654Z OCT 23.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA IV
issued by
M/V LAYLA
sea
Caribbean Sea
position
16.521, -70.249
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

CARIBBEAN SEA.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
1. CABLE OPERATIONS 21 THRU 27 OCT BY
   CABLESHIP LAYLA WITHIN THREE MILES OF
   TRACKLINE JOINING
   16-14.60N 070-21.49W, 16-15.00N 070-21.30W,
   16-24.63N 070-17.49W, 16-33.19N 070-14.16W,
   16-43.90N 070-09.97W, 16-47.91N 070-08.40W.
   ONE MILE BERTH REQUESTED.
2. CANCEL NAVAREA IV 1055/23(14).
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 280001Z OCT 23.

Reading this warning

Cable operations
A ship is laying, burying or repairing a submarine cable, usually along a stated route.
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.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
NAVAREA
One of the 21 ocean areas of the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service, each with a coordinator that broadcasts long-range warnings.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · cable & pipeline work

22 within 180 nm since 2000 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 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

24 cable & pipeline work listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 07:19Z; 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.