NAVAREA VII 246/26

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NAVAREA VII 246 OF
							2026 (24
							AUG 26)

							1. SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN - NE SECTOR - OFFSHORE
							ORANGE RIVER MOUTH

							2. CHART SAN 1

							3. M/V RAMFORM VICTORY CONDUCTING SEISMIC SURVEY
							OPERATIONS TOWING 12 SEISMIC CABLES

							WITH LENGTH 2.6 NM IN AREAS BOUNDED BY THE FOLLOWING
							COORDINATES

							A. 06 - 07.3 S 011 - 14.0 E

							B. 06 - 31.1 S 011 - 17.4 E

							C. 06 - 35.0 S 010 - 51.0 E

							D. 06 - 11.4 S 010 - 47.3 E

							4. WIDE BERTH OF MINIMUM 2 NM AHEAD AND SIDES AND 4
							NM ASTERN REQUESTED

							5. ESCORT VESSELS M/V RIG ANDORMEDA, M/V AURORA - G
							OPERATING ON VHF CH 72 AND CH 16

							6. CANCEL NAVAREA VII 187 OF 2026

							7. UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Verbatim as ingested by Helm.Warning from the South African Navy Hydrographic Office, the NAVAREA VII area coordinator. Warnings whose coordinates could not be plotted on the map are still published here in full.

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NAVAREA VII 246/26 is a navigational warning for NAVAREA VII (South Africa), broadcast by the South African Navy Hydrographic Office under the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service (WWNWS). Helm.Warning aggregates these broadcasts daily and plots warnings with resolved geometry on the live map.

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