Cable operations in progress until 052100Z jul by cableship intrepid: a. along trackline joining 16-46.25N…
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 573/20
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2020-07-04 16:56Z
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) · WEST INDIES - COASTAL 25/20 300039Z JUN 20.. Issued 2020-06-30 01:07Z. 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
- Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 16.852, -62.097. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Cable operations 29 jun thru 04 jul by cableship it intrepid along trackline joining 16-46.25N 062-13.25W,…cancelled by this notice
- Cancel NAVAREA IV 573/20 and this msglater cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Caribbean Sea →
- issued
- 2020-06-30 01:07Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2020-07-05 22:00Z
- authority
- WEST INDIES - COASTAL 25/20 300039Z JUN 20.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- WEST INDIES - COASTAL
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 16.852, -62.097
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA.
MONTSERRAT.
1. CABLE OPERATIONS IN PROGRESS UNTIL
052100Z JUL BY CABLESHIP INTREPID:
A. ALONG TRACKLINE JOINING
16-46.25N 062-13.25W, 16-46.26N 062-13.25W,
16-46.42N 062-13.52W, 16-46.44N 062-13.56W,
16-46.54N 062-13.66W, 16-46.91N 062-13.89W,
16-48.05N 062-13.79W, 16-50.32N 062-12.78W,
16-50.63N 062-12.53W, 16-51.72N 062-10.16W,
16-51.96N 062-09.70W, 16-54.04N 062-05.35W.
B. WITHIN TWO MILES OF
16-51.1N 062-05.8W.
WIDE BERTH REQUESTED.
2. CANCEL NAVAREA IV 565/20
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 052200Z JUL 20.
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.
- 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.
- Within a radius of
- A circular area — every position within a stated distance of a point.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · cable & pipeline work
16 within 180 nm since 2005 · 0 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 in area bound by 18-13.20N 063-04.70W, 18-13.60N…2023-02-20
- Cable operations 201800Z dec until further notice by cableship pierre de fermat in area bound by 14-57.72N…2022-12-19
- Cable operations 26 dec until further notice by M/V lida in area bound by 19-13.47N 063-34.93W, 19-13.80N…2021-12-22
- Cable operations 010001Z to 122359Z oct by cableship it intrepid along trackline joining 18-26.9N 063-57.9W,…2020-09-30
- Cable operations 29 jun thru 04 jul by cableship it intrepid along trackline joining 16-46.25N 062-13.25W,…2020-06-27
- Antigua and barbuda2020-01-21
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
- Ilet du gosier light 16-11.90N 061-29.44W at reduced intensityOther · 52.5 nm
- Pointe du vieux fort light 15-56.90N 061-42.46WNav aids · 58.7 nm
- Kitts and nevisSpills · 87.7 nm
- Anchoring prohibited until further notice in area bound by 18-13.60N 063-04.15W, 18-13.60N 063-04.70W,…Other · 99.6 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
24 cable & pipeline work listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 08:29Z; 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.