Cableship Intrepid is conducting underwater operations at 16-32.79N 075-39.00W near Jamaica from August 5 to 19, requesting a two-mile berth.
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 756/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-08-21 15:40Z
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 2026-08-05 09:05Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-23 15:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 16.547, -75.650. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Current notices and reporting history in the Caribbean Sea →
- issued
- 2026-08-05 09:05Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-08-20 00:01Z
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 16.547, -75.650
- nearest port
- Port Antonio · 108 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
CARIBBEAN SEA. JAMAICA. 1. UNDERWATER OPERATIONS 05 THRU 19 AUG BY CABLESHIP IT INTREPID IN 16-32.79N 075-39.00W. TWO MILE BERTH REQUESTED. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 200001Z AUG 26.
Reading this warning
- Underwater operations
- Divers or remotely operated vehicles are working below a vessel that cannot easily move out of the way.
- Cable operations
- A ship is laying, burying or repairing a submarine cable, usually along a stated route.
- 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · cable & pipeline work
15 within 180 nm since 2008 · 1 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 12 jan by M/V layla in area bound by 17-00.80N 075-22.50W, 16-55.30N…2024-01-11
- Cable operations in progress until further notice by M/V layla in area within three miles of 17-08.26N…2024-01-09
- Cable operations in progress until 28 dec by vessel M/V layla in area within 2.5 miles of trackline joining…2023-12-23
- Cable operations in progress until 26 dec by vessel M/V layla in area within 2.5 miles of trackline joining…2023-12-17
- Cable operations 05 thru 15 dec by M/V layla in area within 2.5 miles of trackline joining 13-19.62N…2023-12-04
- Cable operations in progress until 14 dec by M/V layla in area within three miles of trackline joining…2023-11-30
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
- Portland ridge light 17-44.50N 077-09.50W unlitNav aids · 112.4 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
24 cable & pipeline work listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 11:08Z; 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.