Cable ship Cable Vigilance is performing cable operations in the North Atlantic from August 15 to 28, 2026, requesting one mile berth.
North Atlantic Ocean · NAVAREA IV 778/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-08-28 19:00Z
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 2026-08-11 16:03Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-24 19:47Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- North Atlantic Ocean. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Current notices and reporting history in the North Atlantic Ocean →
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-15 12:00Z | 2026-08-28 00:01Z | — | 300 h 01 |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2026-08-11 16:03Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-08-28 01:00Z
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 34.701, -72.398
- nearest port
- Chesapeake · 223 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
NORTH ATLANTIC. 1. CABLE OPERATIONS 151200Z TO 280001Z AUG BY CABLESHIP CABLE VIGILANCE IN AREA BOUND BY 34-52.60N 072-44.90W, 35-00.50N 072-29.90W, 34-32.10N 072-03.30W, 34-23.10N 072-17.40W. ONE MILE BERTH REQUESTED. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 280100Z AUG 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.
- Area bound by
- Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
- 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
8 within 180 nm since 2018 · 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 29 nov thru 26 dec by M/V rebecca along trackline joining 32-24N 064-26W, 32-49N 065-15W,…2021-11-26
- Cable operations in progress until further notice by M/V layla in area bound by 37-06N 070-13W, 37-04N…2020-05-12
- Cable operations in progress until further notice by M/V layla in area bound by 37-06N 070-13W, 37-04N…2020-05-10
- Cable operations in progress until further notice by M/V layla in area bound by 37-06N 070-13W, 37-04N…2020-05-08
- Cable operations in progress until further notice by M/V layla in vicinity 37-10N 070-24W2020-05-07
- Cable operations 07 thru 17 may by M/V layla in areas bound by: a. 37-06N 070-13W, 37-04N 070-14W, 37-06N…2020-05-05
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
24 cable & pipeline work listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 17:32Z; 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.