Irakleio Radio has now printed an official NAVWARN against an unauthorised NAVTEX broadcast on the Abeille Marengo cable-research file, not a reprint of Saturday afternoon’s dedicated 1411/26 track and not a completed Cyprus 345/26 naming. The working primary is Irakleio Radio NAVWARN 1441/26, broadcast as ZCZC HA05 102205 UTC NOV 26. The official English body states that an unauthorised station has broadcast NAVTEX message FA76-1127/26 concerning research activities for the installation of the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) submarine cable, designated as an EU project of common interest, to be conducted by the French-flagged vessel VB ABEILLE MARENGO (MMSI: 228505700, IMO: 9388613) along two named lines, a significant part of which lie within the Greek EEZ and continental shelf as determined by international law and by national law no 4001/2011. Paragraph 4 of the same tape prints the operator instruction: NAVTEX message FA76-1127/26 is null and void. NAVWARN HA15-1411/26 is valid and effective. Paragraph 5 cancels this message 200001Z MAR. That is the product.
That is the working primary. Tuesday night’s product is a numbered authority-and-void card on an unauthorised NAVTEX, not a rewrite of Saturday afternoon’s dedicated Irakleio 1411/26 2 NM cable-research track, not a reprint of unused official Cyprus Radio 345/26, and not a second NAVAREA III 0171/26 hull piece. It names an unauthorised station. It names FA76-1127/26. It names VB ABEILLE MARENGO, MMSI 228505700 and IMO 9388613. It names GSI. It names two coordinate lines. It names three Greek permits. It names Irakleio’s exclusive authority inside the Hellenic NAVTEX service area. It voids FA76-1127/26. It holds HA15-1411/26. It prints a March cancel. It does not reprint 1411/26’s twenty-one-point western Cretan opening. It does not close Heraklion, Sitia, Kasos, Karpathos, Rhodes or Limassol. It does not add a numeric berth of its own. Dedicated 1411/26 remains the working 2 NM ship-berth track from 6 November 2026 until 062200 UTC 6 March 2027. Masters who brief Tuesday night as “1411 cancelled,” as “the GSI NAVTEX is now FA76,” or as a closed eastern Mediterranean will have merged an unauthorised-station void onto the dedicated Hellenic primary.
What 1441/26 actually printed
The hydrographic text is the working primary. Irakleio Radio NAVWARN 1441/26. Issued 102205 UTC 10 November 2026. EAST MEDITERRANEAN SEA. 1. UNAUTHORISED STATION HAS BROADCAST NAVTEX MESSAGE FA76-1127/26 CONCERNING RESEARCH ACTIVITIES FOR THE INSTALLATION OF THE GREAT SEA INTERCONNECTOR (GSI) SUBMARINE CABLE (DESIGNATED AS AN EU PROJECT OF COMMON INTEREST) TO BE CONDUCTED BY THE FRENCH-FLAGGED VESSEL VB ABEILLE MARENGO (MMSI: 228505700, IMO: 9388613) ALONG LINES CONNECTING COORDINATES, A SIGNIFICANT PART OF WHICH, AND SPECIFICALLY THOSE LISTED BELOW, LIE WITHIN GREEK EEZ AND CONTINENTAL SHELF AS DETERMINED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW AND BY NATIONAL LAW NO 4001/2011, IN FULL CONFORMITY THEREWITH. LINE 1 BETWEEN THE POINTS: 35 20.46 N – 027 15.61 E / 35 19.85 N – 027 25.20 E / 35 13.14 N – 027 35.10 E / 35 01.94 N – 027 42.89 E / 34 47.85 N – 028 10.04 E / 34 42.47 N – 028 40.81 E / 34 26.64 N – 029 25.47 E / 34 23.31 N – 029 32.66 E / 34 17.27 N – 029 52.26 E / 34 11.80 N – 029 58.14 E / 34 11.30 N – 030 05.12 E. LINE 2 BETWEEN THE POINTS: 35 19.06 N – 027 15.23 E / 35 18.46 N – 027 24.34 E / 35 12.52 N – 027 33.34 E / 35 00.55 N – 027 40.43 E / 34 45.86 N – 028 08.84 E / 34 40.75 N – 028 39.87 E / 34 25.15 N – 029 24.13 E / 34 21.91 N – 029 31.56 E / 34 16.29 N – 029 50.62 E / 34 10.31 N – 029 56.42 E / 34 08.69 N – 030 03.04 E. 2. THE ABOVE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES IN AREAS OF GREEK EEZ AND CONTINENTAL SHELF ARE TO BE CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS SET OUT IN THE GREEK PERMITS NO 31373/07.06.2024, 9020/11.02.2026 AND 65808/06.11.2026. 3. FURTHERMORE, THE AFOREMENTIONED LINES, AS DEFINED BY THE COORDINATES DETAILED ABOVE, FALL WITHIN THE HELLENIC NAVTEX SERVICE AREA, WHERE THE IRAKLEIO NAVTEX STATION HAS EXCLUSIVE AUTHORITY TO PROMULGATE NAVTEX MESSAGES IN ITS DESIGNATED AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY. 4. IN VIEW OF THE ABOVE, NAVTEX MESSAGE FA76-1127/26 IS NULL AND VOID. NAVWARN HA15-1411/26 IS VALID AND EFFECTIVE. 5. CANCEL THIS MESSAGE 200001Z MAR. Stay with that wording. Hold UNAUTHORISED as printed. Hold FA76-1127/26. Hold HA15-1411/26. Hold VB ABEILLE MARENGO, the MMSI, the IMO, GSI, the two lines, the three permit numbers, and the null-and-void sentence. Do not tidy FA76 into another station designator. Do not tidy 1127/26 into 1411/26.
The authority sentence is the first briefing fact. Paragraph 3 prints that the listed lines fall within the Hellenic NAVTEX service area, where the Irakleio NAVTEX station has exclusive authority to promulgate NAVTEX messages in its designated area of responsibility. Paragraph 4 then voids FA76-1127/26 and holds HA15-1411/26. That is a station-authority product before it is a new cable-track product. A bridge that files Tuesday night as a second research-operation NAVWARN, and then plots FA76-1127/26 beside 1411/26, has kept the tape Irakleio just declared null. A passage plan that deletes 1411/26 because 1441/26 is now the newer Irakleio number has dropped the only product paragraph 4 still calls valid and effective. Keep 1411/26. Void 1127/26. Log 1441/26 as the void-and-hold card, not as a replacement track.
The two lines are the second briefing fact. Line 1 opens at 35 20.46 N 027 15.61 E and finishes at 34 11.30 N 030 05.12 E. Line 2 opens at 35 19.06 N 027 15.23 E and finishes at 34 08.69 N 030 03.04 E. Those eleven-plus-eleven points sit along the eastern half of Saturday afternoon’s dedicated 1411/26 track — from about 027-15 E toward 030-05 E, on the Kasos–Karpathos–eastern Mediterranean face — not on 1411/26’s western Cretan opening at 35 24.98 N 024 56.13 E. 1441/26 does not reprint the first ten 1411/26 points west of 027-11 E. Do not replace 1411/26’s twenty-one-point line with Tuesday night’s two eastern lines. Do not treat the two lines as a closed box. Do not invent a corridor width. 1441/26 prints no numeric berth of its own. The 2 NM ship berth remains the dedicated 1411/26 sentence. Official Cyprus 345/26, unused as dedicated, remains a different eighteen-point EEZ box opening near 34-10.7 N 030-05.0 E from 19 November 2026. Do not collapse Tuesday night onto that unused Cyprus polygon.
The hull identifiers are the third briefing fact. 1441/26 names the French-flagged vessel VB ABEILLE MARENGO, MMSI 228505700, IMO 9388613. Saturday afternoon’s dedicated 1411/26 named ‘ABEILLE MARENGO’ and printed neither MMSI, IMO, flag, VB prefix, nor GSI. NAVAREA III 0171/26 remains wrap on 1411/26: coordinator listing only, cable operations by Abeille Marengo, IMO 9388613, eastern Mediterranean, cancel 6 March 2027 22:00, unused as a second dedicated hull piece. Official Cyprus 345/26 remains unused as dedicated: M/V “VB ABEILLE MARENGO”, MMSI 228505700, call sign FPEI, geological survey inside the Republic of Cyprus EEZ, 19 November 2026 to 19 March 2027. Tuesday night is the first dedicated Irakleio product that prints IMO 9388613 and MMSI 228505700 onto an official Hellenic body. Do not promote those identifiers back onto the 1411/26 text as if Saturday’s tape had named them. Do not treat 1441/26 as having completed a Cyprus naming. Hold the identifiers on 1441/26, where they were printed, as part of the voided-message description.
The permit list is the fourth briefing fact. Paragraph 2 prints Greek permits no 31373/07.06.2024, 9020/11.02.2026 and 65808/06.11.2026. Dedicated 1411/26 printed none of those numbers. Do not invent a permit line onto Saturday’s research-operation sentence. Do not invent a 6 November 2026 start on 1441/26; the 1441/26 window is the void of FA76-1127/26 plus the hold of 1411/26, with a printed cancel of 200001Z MAR. The tape as retrieved ends at MAR and does not print a year group on that cancel line. Do not silently tidy 200001Z MAR into 200001 UTC 20 March 2027 by borrowing unused 345/26’s kill. Hold 200001Z MAR as printed. Watch a later Irakleio confirmation if a year group is restored.
Same-board wrap, not this berth: dedicated 1411/26 remains HA15 061413 UTC 6 November, ‘ABEILLE MARENGO’, 21-point line, 2 NM, cancel 062200 UTC 6 March 2027. NAVAREA III 0171/26 remains wrap on that file. Official Cyprus 345/26 remains unused as dedicated. Tuesday afternoon’s dedicated HNHS 1370/2026 remains AEGAEO research stations on 12 and 13 November. Tuesday morning’s dedicated HNHS 1366/26 remains the Elefsina parachute disc. Dedicated Irakleio 1409/26 remains the Plateia firing windows. Dedicated Irakleio 1404/26 remains Kobi Ruegg through 11 November. Those clocks are separate.
What this is not, and the 6–16 November eastern Mediterranean tape
This is not a rewrite of Irakleio 1411/26, and it is not 1411 cancelled. Saturday afternoon’s dedicated product remains: EAST CRETAN SEA, SOUTHEAST CRETAN SEA, EAST MEDITERRANEAN SEA. Research operation for underwater cable installation by ‘ABEILLE MARENGO’ from 6 November 2026 until 6 March 2027, twenty-one points from 35 24.98 N 024 56.13 E to 34 09.68 N 030 04.31 E, wide berth requested 2 NM, cancel 062200 UTC 6 March 2027. Official wording on that file keeps the opening quote and missing close-quote on ABEILLE MARENGO. Paragraph 4 of tonight’s 1441/26 says that notice is valid and effective. A passage plan that bins 1411/26 because a newer Irakleio number arrived at 102205 UTC has deleted the only working 2 NM track. A passage plan that adds Tuesday’s two eastern lines as extra 1411/26 points has rewritten Saturday’s 21-point list. Keep 1411/26 as dedicated. Log 1441/26 as the void of FA76-1127/26.
This is not FA76-1127/26, and it is not a working GSI NAVTEX from another station. 1441/26 exists to tell the bridge that FA76-1127/26 is null and void. Do not plot 1127/26. Do not keep a FA76 print in the live NAVTEX folder because a receiver logged it before 102205 UTC. Do not brief Tuesday night as “Antalya issued the GSI cable warning.” The Hellenic product says the station was unauthorised in Irakleio’s area of responsibility. Hold that sentence. Do not turn it into a diplomatic file. The operational content is: void 1127/26, keep 1411/26, log 1441/26 until 200001Z MAR.
This is not official Cyprus Radio 345/26, and it is not a completed EEZ geological-survey naming. Official 345/26, broadcast 061800 UTC 6 November, M/V “VB ABEILLE MARENGO”, MMSI 228505700, call sign FPEI, geological survey operations within the Republic of Cyprus EEZ from 19 November 2026 until 19 March 2027, eighteen-point box, wide berth of 2 NM from the ship, cancel 200001 UTC 20 March 2027, remains unused as dedicated. The first Cyprus corner sits on the order of 34-10.7 N 030-05.0 E, next to 1411/26’s last point and next to 1441/26’s eastern termini. That window still opens on 19 November, nine days after tonight’s void tape. Two products, one hull family, plus tonight’s authority card. Do not collapse Tuesday night onto 345/26. Do not promote FPEI or “geological survey” onto 1411/26. Do not invent a 19 November start on the Irakleio track. Do not invent a 20 March 2027 kill on 1441/26 from the unused Cyprus cancel.
This is not NAVAREA III 0171/26 written as a second dedicated hull piece. 0171/26 remains wrap on dedicated 1411/26: coordinator listing, cable operations by Abeille Marengo, IMO 9388613, eastern Mediterranean, cancel 6 March 2027 22:00. Tonight’s 1441/26 is an Irakleio NAVTEX, not a NAVAREA III English body. Do not promote 0171/26 into a dedicated post because 1441/26 printed the IMO. Do not treat 1441/26 as having retrieved the missing 0171/26 English text.
This is not Tuesday afternoon’s dedicated HNHS 1370/2026, and it is not a Saronic research rewrite. 1370/2026 remains sixteen named AEGAEO stations in the Saronikos Gulf and South Evvoikos on 12 and 13 November, 0.2 nautical mile berth. 1441/26 does not name AEGAEO. Do not brief Tuesday night as “the Aegaeo tape moved east.” This is also not Tuesday morning’s dedicated HNHS 1366/26 Elefsina parachute disc, not dedicated Irakleio 1409/26 Plateia firing, not dedicated Irakleio 1404/26 Kobi Ruegg, not dedicated 1342/26 Drapano FORACS, and not dedicated 1336/26 NG SURVEYOR. Those remain their own files.
This is not Tuesday morning’s dedicated IMO 131-count on Huda, not dedicated Update 112, and not dedicated UKMTO 200-26. Those are Hormuz / Gulf of Oman security products. 1441/26 prints no projectile and does not sit east of Khasab. Do not recast an unauthorised-NAVTEX void as a merchant Attack. UKMTO still ends at dedicated 200-26. No 201-26, no Update 113 and no IMO 132 board row this run.
This is not a closed Cretan Sea, not a Kasos Strait exclusion, and not a Limassol or Heraklion port closure. 1441/26 voids a NAVTEX and holds 1411/26. Dedicated 1411/26 still requests 2 NM from the ship on a 21-point line. It does not close the sea. Do not invent RAM. Do not invent a VHF working channel. Do not invent daily hours. Do not convert Tuesday’s two eastern lines into a fishing ban.
Operational implications
For a master running north of Crete, the Kasos and Karpathos face, or the eastern Mediterranean west of Cyprus, Tuesday night is a NAVTEX-hygiene problem before it is a new cable story. A receiver that logged FA76-1127/26 now has to mark that message null and keep HA15-1411/26 as the working 2 NM track. The operational failure mode is the double plot: one Hellenic 21-point line with a 2 NM berth, plus an unauthorised two-line GSI print that Irakleio has voided. The second failure mode is the deleted primary: binning 1411/26 because 1441/26 is newer. Paragraph 4 forbids both. Keep 1411/26. Void 1127/26. File 1441/26 as the authority card until 200001Z MAR.
The identifiers on tonight’s tape are useful and they are not a rewrite of Saturday’s omissions. IMO 9388613, MMSI 228505700, French-flagged, VB prefix, and GSI are now on an official Irakleio body describing the unauthorised message. Charterers and war-risk desks can log those identifiers against 1441/26. They should not pretend 1411/26 printed them. They should not pretend unused 345/26 is now dedicated because tonight’s tape used the same MMSI. 345/26 remains unused as dedicated, still a 19 November–19 March Cyprus EEZ geological-survey box with call sign FPEI. 0171/26 remains wrap. Industry Nexans / Next Geosolutions colour stays colour except where 1441/26 itself printed GSI.
The eastern-half overlap is the passage-planning content. Dedicated 1411/26 already covers 027-15 E to 030-04 E as part of a longer 21-point line that begins at 024-56 E. Tuesday’s two lines sit on that eastern face. A master shaping 35-20 N 027-16 E tonight still owes 1411/26 two nautical miles from ABEILLE MARENGO. 1441/26 does not add a second numeric berth. It does not widen 2 NM. It does not shorten the track to the eastern half. Do not occupy 34-11 N 030-05 E as a waiting area on the theory that 1441/26 replaced the western Cretan points. Those western points remain on 1411/26 through 6 March 2027.
The 8–16 November Cretan Sea overlap from earlier dedicated files is still live and is still not this product. Dedicated 1342/26 remains the Drapano FORACS box, 9–13 November, 0600Z–1600Z. Dedicated 1409/26 remains Plateia firing on 9 and 16 November. Dedicated 1404/26 remains Kobi Ruegg through 11 November. Dedicated 1370/2026 remains AEGAEO on 12 and 13 November. Dedicated 1366/26 remains Elefsina parachute windows on 10 and 11 November. A master who only plots “the Abeille Marengo NAVTEX” for this week has under-read a four-month cable track, an unauthorised-station void, a FORACS box, a Plateia firing, a fiber-optic track, a Saronic research card and an Elefsina parachute disc. Do not merge them.
A night transit on the 21-point line is still not a printed all-clear. 1411/26 still prints no daily hours. 1441/26 prints none either. Do not treat 0000–0600 UTC as a safe window. Do not treat Heraklion, Sitia or Limassol as closed unless those authorities say so. Watch a later Irakleio NAVWARN that restores a year group on the 200001Z MAR cancel, a later retrieval of English 0171/26, or a later dedicated 345/26 if the Cyprus box itself moves. Until then, 345/26 stays unused as dedicated.
Keep the dedicated files on their own lines. Irakleio 1411/26 remains Saturday afternoon’s dedicated 2 NM cable-research track through 6 March 2027. HNHS 1370/2026 remains Tuesday afternoon’s dedicated AEGAEO stations. HNHS 1366/26 remains Tuesday morning’s dedicated Elefsina parachute disc. NAVAREA IX 434/26 remains Monday night’s dedicated Kuwait survey. NAVAREA IX 431/26 remains Friday morning’s dedicated SKATE 3D box through 13 November. NAVAREA III 0170/26 remains this afternoon’s dedicated Abdulhamid Han relocation. IMO 131 remains Tuesday morning’s dedicated Huda count. Update 112, 197-26, 198-26, 199-26 and 200-26 remain their own dedicated files. Do not recast 10 November night as a 1411 rewrite, as a completed Cyprus naming, or as a closed eastern Mediterranean.
What Operators Should Note
- Log 1441/26 as an unauthorised-NAVTEX void, not as a replacement for 1411/26. Official Irakleio Radio NAVWARN 1441/26, ZCZC HA05 102205 UTC 10 November 2026. EAST MEDITERRANEAN SEA. Unauthorised station broadcast FA76-1127/26 concerning GSI research by French-flagged VB ABEILLE MARENGO, MMSI 228505700, IMO 9388613, along two named lines inside the Greek EEZ and continental shelf. Permits 31373/07.06.2024, 9020/11.02.2026 and 65808/06.11.2026. Irakleio has exclusive NAVTEX authority in the designated service area. FA76-1127/26 is null and void. HA15-1411/26 is valid and effective. Cancel this message 200001Z MAR as printed. Hold UNAUTHORISED, FA76-1127/26 and HA15-1411/26. This is not 1411/26 cancelled, not unused 345/26, not wrap 0171/26, and not a closed sea.
- Void FA76-1127/26 on the receiver, then keep the dedicated 21-point 2 NM track. Do not plot 1127/26. Do not keep a FA76 print in the live folder. Dedicated 1411/26 remains EAST CRETAN SEA / SOUTHEAST CRETAN SEA / EAST MEDITERRANEAN SEA, ‘ABEILLE MARENGO’, 6 November 2026 to 6 March 2027, twenty-one points from 35 24.98 N 024 56.13 E to 34 09.68 N 030 04.31 E, wide berth requested 2 NM, cancel 062200 UTC 6 March 2027. Tuesday’s two lines sit on the eastern half of that track and do not replace the western Cretan points. Do not invent a second numeric berth on 1441/26. Do not convert 2 NM into a closed fishing ban.
- Hold IMO 9388613 and MMSI 228505700 on 1441/26, not as a silent edit of 1411/26. Saturday’s dedicated tape named neither identifier. Tonight’s tape named both as part of the voided-message description. NAVAREA III 0171/26 remains wrap, unused as a second dedicated hull piece. Official Cyprus 345/26 remains unused as dedicated: VB ABEILLE MARENGO, MMSI 228505700, call sign FPEI, geological survey in the Cyprus EEZ, 19 November 2026–19 March 2027, 2 NM from the ship, cancel 200001 UTC 20 March 2027. Do not promote FPEI or “geological survey” onto 1411/26. Do not invent a 19 November start on the Irakleio track.
- Hold 200001Z MAR as printed; do not borrow 345/26’s year group onto 1441/26. The retrieved tape ends the cancel line at MAR. Do not tidy it into 20 March 2027. Do not kill 1411/26 at 200001Z MAR. 1411/26 still dies at 062200 UTC 6 March 2027. Watch a later Irakleio NAVWARN that restores a year group, moves a line, or amends the void.
- Keep the 8–16 November Hellenic overlap on its own clocks. Dedicated 1342/26 remains Drapano FORACS, 9–13 November, 0600Z–1600Z. Dedicated 1409/26 remains Plateia firing, 9 and 16 November. Dedicated 1404/26 remains Kobi Ruegg through 11 November. Dedicated 1370/2026 remains AEGAEO stations, 12 and 13 November, 0.2 NM. Dedicated 1366/26 remains Elefsina parachute windows, 10 and 11 November. Dedicated 1336/26 remains NG SURVEYOR. Do not merge the cable-authority card onto any of those boxes.
- Heraklion, Sitia, Kasos, Karpathos, Rhodes and Limassol are not closed by this notice. Eastern Mediterranean traffic still carries dedicated 1411/26 as a four-month 2 NM ship berth, with 1441/26 as the void of an unauthorised FA76 print through 200001Z MAR. Watch a later Irakleio NAVWARN, a retrieved English 0171/26, or a later dedicated 345/26 if the Cyprus box itself is taken as a primary — not a completed GSI laying order, not a 1411 rewrite, and not a Hormuz file. Sightings still go to the CSO; 1441/26 itself prints no VHF working channel.
Regulas Shipping will keep lining Tuesday night’s Irakleio 1441/26 void of FA76-1127/26 against Saturday afternoon’s dedicated 1411/26 2 NM Abeille Marengo track so operators can treat the unauthorised NAVTEX as null, keep the Hellenic primary in force, and not brief 10 November as a cancelled cable warning or a closed eastern Mediterranean.
