{"id":1161,"date":"2026-10-31T23:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/navwarn-777-26-places-cutter-331-in-burgas-bay-3-6-november\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T23:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:35:14","slug":"navwarn-777-26-places-cutter-331-in-burgas-bay-3-6-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/navwarn-777-26-places-cutter-331-in-burgas-bay-3-6-november\/","title":{"rendered":"NAVWARN 777-26 places cutter 331 in Burgas Bay 3-6 November"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bulgaria\u2019s Navy Hydrographic Service, now carrying the English text on its in-force NAVWARN board and on the Varna Radio \/ VTMIS warning page, prints NAVWARN 777\/26 as a next-week Burgas Bay hydrographic-survey berth, not as a wreck rewrite. The working primary is: NAVWARN 777\/26 BLACK SEA. BULGARIA BURGAS BAY HYDROGRAPHIC CUTTER 331 WILL CONDUCT HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY FROM 030615 UTC TO 061600 UTC NOV 2026. MARINERS REQUESTED TO MAINTAIN SAFE DISTANCE MINIMUM 3 CABLES. That is the product. It names a cutter, it names Burgas Bay, it names a 3\u20136 November UTC window, and it names a requested three-cable berth. It does not name a wreck, a four-corner prohibited box, a port closure, or a new weapon clock.<\/p>\n

That is the first dedicated Black Sea survey instrument after this afternoon\u2019s dedicated Galata diving box. This afternoon\u2019s dedicated NAVWARN 776\/26 piece on this desk, published about 11:35 UTC, recorded the four-corner prohibition south of Cape Galata and wrapped 777\/26 as a same-board Burgas berth. Saturday night takes that berth as the primary. This morning\u2019s dedicated NAVWARN 775\/26 remains the coast-wide two-hour territorial-sea e-mail to sp@vtmis.bg. Thursday afternoon\u2019s dedicated NAVWARN 768\/26 remains Contship Jet, IMO 9348625, sunk in 43-07.80N 028-45.36E with more than 20 dangerous-goods containers adrift. Thursday morning\u2019s dedicated 766\/26 remains the five-cable keep-clear on Khoryv, IMO 8138712, at 43-30.60N 028-43.69E. 777\/26 sits on the same in-force board, above those wrecks and beside 776\/26 and 775\/26. It is not a second drone attack. It is not a rewrite of 776\/26, 775\/26, 768\/26 or 766\/26. Masters who brief Saturday night as a Burgas harbour shutdown, as a completed container recovery, as a new Kaliakra wreck, or as this morning\u2019s 189-26 will have merged a survey cutter into four other series.<\/p>\n

What the warning actually printed<\/h2>\n

The hydrographic text is short and is the working primary. NAVWARN 777\/26. Black Sea. Bulgaria. Burgas Bay. Hydrographic cutter 331 will conduct hydrographic survey from 030615 UTC to 061600 UTC November 2026. Mariners requested to maintain safe distance minimum 3 cables. Stay with that wording. Do not invent a four-corner box. 777\/26 prints a named cutter and a requested berth, not a closed rectangle. Do not invent a VHF working channel, a guard ship, or a daylight-only window. The notice does not print those. Do not invent a start on 31 October or 1 November. The window opens at 030615 UTC on 3 November and closes at 061600 UTC on 6 November. Do not invent a latitude and longitude for the cutter. 777\/26 does not print a plot. Burgas Bay is the working water, not a single waypoint.<\/p>\n

The berth is the first briefing fact. Three cables is 0.3 nautical miles. That is a requested safe distance around a named hydrographic cutter, not a harbour closure and not a five-activity prohibition. Cape Galata and Varna sit on the northern Bulgarian approach. Burgas Bay sits on the southern Bulgarian coast, on the order of 50 nautical miles south of the Galata box and well south-west of Thursday\u2019s Kaliakra wreck water. A passage plan that only carried this afternoon\u2019s Galata corners, or that treated Burgas as a visual mark because 768\/26 still prints no radius, has not budgeted a moving survey hull in the southern bay from Tuesday through Friday of next week. SeaLagom\u2019s coastal board, industry colour of public availability only, first carried 777\/26 at 1547 UTC 30 October on the same stamp as 776\/26; the official hydrographic English archive is the working text. Do not treat 1547 UTC as a start-of-enforcement clock that the NAVWARN itself does not print.<\/p>\n

The requested wording is the second briefing fact. Mariners are requested to maintain a safe distance of minimum 3 cables. That is not \u201carea prohibited for navigation, anchoring, fishing, diving and underwater activities.\u201d A master who treats 777\/26 as a hard box because this afternoon\u2019s 776\/26 closed Galata has over-read a survey berth. A master who treats 777\/26 as colour only because the notice says \u201crequested\u201d has under-read a named cutter that will work the bay for more than three days. A fishing boat, a yacht, a feeder inbound to Burgas or a ship cutting the bay on a southbound coastal track all sit inside that sentence. The notice does not carve out warships, yachts, or ships in innocent passage. Innocent passage still has to give the cutter room. 775\/26\u2019s two-hour e-mail does not authorise a close CPA on 331.<\/p>\n

The clock is the third briefing fact. 030615 UTC 3 November to 061600 UTC 6 November is a seventy-five-and-three-quarter-hour window in the first half of next week, not this weekend. It opens fifteen minutes after the Galata box and runs one day longer, through Friday 6 November. 757\/26 still closes a Varna Lake regatta box through 311700 UTC today and again 010800\u2013011600 UTC 1 November; that is a lake product, not this coastal survey, and it ends before cutter 331 starts. A DPA who briefs Saturday night as \u201cBurgas is closed now\u201d has pulled next week\u2019s survey onto today\u2019s lake regatta. A DPA who leaves 777\/26 out of Monday night orders because \u201cit is only a survey\u201d has left a named cutter off the Burgas approach.<\/p>\n

Same-board instruments, not second primaries, remain in force around this berth. NAVWARN 776\/26 remains this afternoon\u2019s dedicated Galata diving box: naval exercise, diving operations 030600 UTC 3 November to 051430 UTC 5 November, four corners 43-04.765N 027-54.949E, 43-04.767N 027-55.055E, 43-04.120N 027-55.807E and 43-04.120N 027-55.056E, prohibited for navigation, anchoring, fishing, diving and underwater activities. NAVWARN 775\/26 remains this morning\u2019s dedicated two-hour territorial-sea e-mail to sp@vtmis.bg, fields SP A \/ H+C \/ G \/ I \/ P \/ W \/ X. NAVWARN 768\/26 remains the working Contship Jet wreck-and-cargo instrument, 43-07.80N 028-45.36E, extreme caution, over 20 containers including flammable gases, non-flammable non-toxic gases, flammable liquids and other dangerous goods. NAVWARN 766\/26 remains the Khoryv five-cable keep-clear, 43-30.60N 028-43.69E, capsized, semi-submerged, drifting, without crew and lights. NAVWARN 757\/26 remains the Varna Lake BRIZ-ESEN 2026 regatta prohibition through this afternoon and again on 1 November. None of those numbers is 777\/26. Do not merge a Galata diving box, a coast-wide e-mail, or a lake regatta into a Burgas survey berth.<\/p>\n

What this is not<\/h2>\n

This is not a rewrite of the Galata diving box. This afternoon\u2019s dedicated NAVWARN 776\/26 remains the working Varna-approach prohibition: four corners south of Cape Galata, 030600\u2013051430 UTC 3\u20135 November, navigation, anchoring, fishing, diving and underwater activities closed. 777\/26 does not reprint those corners. It does not apply a five-activity prohibition to Burgas Bay. A master who thinks the Galata box covers a Burgas inbound track next Tuesday has invented a closed southern rectangle the notice does not print. Stay out of the Galata box, and still give cutter 331 three cables in Burgas Bay.<\/p>\n

This is not a rewrite of the territorial-sea e-mail. This morning\u2019s dedicated NAVWARN 775\/26 remains the working reporting instrument: all ships planning navigation through Bulgarian territorial sea, two hours before entry, e-mail sp@vtmis.bg with the SP A \/ H+C \/ G \/ I \/ P \/ W \/ X pack. 777\/26 does not replace that mail. It does not amend the mailbox. It does not add a Burgas-survey field. A master who thinks the two-hour pack covers a close CPA on 331 has invented a permit the notice does not print. Send the mail, and still keep three cables from the cutter.<\/p>\n

This is not a rewrite of Contship Jet. Thursday afternoon\u2019s dedicated NAVWARN 768\/26 remains the working wreck: M\/V CONTSHIP JET, IMO 9348625, sunk at 282030 UTC 28 October in 43-07.80N 028-45.36E, over 20 dangerous-goods containers adrift, extreme caution, no radius, no wreck buoy, no least depth. 777\/26 does not reprint that plot. Burgas Bay sits on the order of 50 nautical miles south-west of the wreck, on the southern commercial coast, not on the Kaliakra drone-hit water. A DPA who briefs Saturday night as \u201cthe wreck box\u201d has moved a containership onto a survey cutter. Sightings of the wreck, of containers, of pollution or of persons in the water still belong with the coastal-state MRCC and with the company security officer. They are not a substitute for giving 331 room, and the cutter is not a substitute for them.<\/p>\n

This is not a rewrite of Khoryv. Thursday morning\u2019s dedicated NAVWARN 766\/26 remains the working five-cable keep-clear east of Shabla: 43-30.60N 028-43.69E, IMO 8138712, capsized, semi-submerged, drifting, without crew and lights. Friday\u2019s dedicated Romanian Naval Authority file remains the Khoryv casualty and search piece. Tuesday\u2019s dedicated ARN 158\/2026 remains the last Romanian wreck-move and is no longer the working keep-clear. 777\/26 does not move 43-30.60N 028-43.69E. It does not apply a five-cable circle to Burgas Bay. Three cables on a live cutter is not five cables on a capsized hull. Do not collapse the two wrecks into the survey berth, and do not apply Khoryv\u2019s radius to a ship that has only failed to plot a moving cutter.<\/p>\n

This is not Warning 190-26, and it is not a Hormuz or Aden product. Tonight\u2019s companion UKMTO Suspicious Activity is a Friday 1419 UTC boarded fishing vessel with a Pirate Action Group concern. It does not name a Burgas cutter. This morning\u2019s dedicated 189-26 remains a time-late 28 October crude-oil-tanker projectile on an outbound Hormuz transit. NAVAREA IX still ends, on the Pakistan Saturday table, at 423\/26 as an in-force list and at 422\/26 as a southern-Gulf dhow sailing race; 420\/26 remains last night\u2019s dedicated RITI fire-and-anchor. This is not Update 110. Update 109 remains the last numbered public periodic note. This is not an International Maritime Organization 123-count. This afternoon\u2019s dedicated highlighted-incidents board is the 122-count as at 30 October. Contship Jet, Khoryv and a Burgas survey cutter do not belong on that table. 777\/26 does not put them there.<\/p>\n

This is not a Varna, Burgas, Constanta, Midia, Mangalia or Sulina closure. 777\/26 requests three cables around cutter 331 in Burgas Bay for about 76 hours next week. It does not close the port. It does not print a traffic-separation change. It does not print an armed-boarding warning. 757\/26 is a Varna Lake regatta through this afternoon and 1 November, not a Black Sea coastal closure. Do not merge a harbour-training circle or a lake prohibition into a southern-bay survey. 777\/26 is a named cutter with a requested berth. It is not a shoreline-pollution confirmation and not a completed container recovery.<\/p>\n

This is not Wine Trader at 45-00.40N 029-59.92E, not HS Dignity, not Chelsea 3, not MApN 213, not the EP 432-52-88 \/ CSAT vote, and not Tuesday\u2019s NATO extra-MPA note. Open-register colour on the two wrecks is unchanged from Thursday\u2019s dedicated files and stays colour here. None of that listing colour sits on 777\/26. Do not promote it to a NAVWARN fact.<\/p>\n

Operational implications<\/h2>\n

For a master shaping Burgas between Tuesday and Friday of next week, Thursday\u2019s two wreck plots are still on the board, this morning\u2019s two-hour e-mail is still in front of the 12-mile line, this afternoon\u2019s Galata box still sits on the Varna approach through Thursday, and a named survey cutter now works the southern bay through Friday. 768\/26 still puts a sunk containership at 43-07.80N 028-45.36E with an unlocated dangerous-goods box field. 766\/26 still puts a five-cable keep-clear on Khoryv at 43-30.60N 028-43.69E. 775\/26 still requires the ship to identify itself two hours before the territorial-sea line. 776\/26 still requires the Varna passage plan to go around 43-04.765N 027-54.949E \/ 43-04.767N 027-55.055E \/ 43-04.120N 027-55.807E \/ 43-04.120N 027-55.056E from 030600 UTC 3 November to 051430 UTC 5 November. 777\/26 now requires the Burgas passage plan to keep a minimum of three cables from hydrographic cutter 331 from 030615 UTC 3 November to 061600 UTC 6 November. A passage plan that only carried the Kaliakra, Shabla and Galata offsets, or that treated Burgas Bay as open water because the wrecks sit 50-plus miles north-east, has not budgeted a moving survey hull on the southern inbound track. Innocent passage still has to give the cutter room.<\/p>\n

For a DPA and an operator with feeders or general cargo on Piraeus\u2013Burgas, Istanbul\u2013Burgas, or any west-Black-Sea rotation next week, the split is the operational content. The two-hour SP mail still goes to sp@vtmis.bg. The Galata box is still a navigation prohibition on the Varna approach through Thursday. The Burgas berth is a requested three-cable CPA on a named cutter, not a reporting substitute and not a closed rectangle. Further sightings of Contship Jet, of Khoryv, of containers, of pollution or of persons in the water belong with the coastal-state MRCC and with the company security officer, not with UKMTO 190-26 or 189-26. 777\/26 does not order an armed team, a daylight-only transit, or a deviation around Thursday\u2019s wrecks. It also does not authorise a master to close the cutter because the ship is only inbound to Burgas. Log the warning number, the cutter name, Burgas Bay, the 030615\u2013061600 UTC 3\u20136 November window, the three-cable requested berth, and the fact that 776\/26, 775\/26, 768\/26 and 766\/26 remain the working Galata box, e-mail and wreck instruments. Do not log a harbour closure, a four-corner box, a wreck buoy, or a completed recovery that 777\/26 does not print.<\/p>\n

Same-board 776\/26 is next week\u2019s Galata diving box, not this afternoon\u2019s Burgas survey. From 030600 UTC 3 November through 051430 UTC 5 November, a small coastal rectangle south of Cape Galata is prohibited. That number belongs in the 3\u20135 November night orders for Varna-bound ships. It does not replace 777\/26, and 777\/26 does not replace it. 757\/26 still closes a Varna Lake box through 311700 UTC today and again on 1 November; that is a lake regatta, not a substitute coastal prohibition, and it ends before the Burgas window opens. NAVWARN 93\/26, still in force on the same board, remains the unlit, unmanoeuvrable MV KAIROS at anchor in Burgas Bay at 42-30.40N 027-48.10E with a five-cable keep-clear. That is a standing Burgas hazard, not a 777\/26 rewrite. Hold both. Do not convert cutter 331 onto KAIROS, and do not treat three cables around 331 as a substitute for five cables around KAIROS.<\/p>\n

Keep the dedicated files on their own lines. 776\/26 remains this afternoon\u2019s dedicated Galata diving box and is still in force. 775\/26 remains this morning\u2019s dedicated two-hour territorial-sea e-mail and is still in force. 768\/26 remains Thursday afternoon\u2019s dedicated Contship Jet wreck-and-cargo piece and is still in force. 766\/26 remains Thursday morning\u2019s dedicated Khoryv five-cable keep-clear and is still in force. 759\/26 remains Thursday morning\u2019s dedicated surface-drone-hit piece and is no longer the working caution. Friday\u2019s ANR Khoryv naming remains the casualty\/search piece. Wine Trader remains the dedicated Sulina fire. 190-26 is tonight\u2019s companion PAG fishing-vessel boarding. 189-26 is this morning\u2019s dedicated Hormuz time-late Attack. 188-26 remains last night\u2019s Lavan Island Attack. 187-26 remains Friday morning\u2019s Khasab attached-device Attack. 420\/26 remains last night\u2019s dedicated RITI fire-and-anchor. Update 109 remains the last periodic Middle East threat note. 016-26 remains Wednesday afternoon\u2019s blockade document pack. Do not recast 31 October night as a second Contship attack, as a Burgas closure, as Warning 190-26, as a rewrite of this afternoon\u2019s 776\/26, or as a completed salvage.<\/p>\n

What Operators Should Note<\/h2>\n