Naval command · United States

Commander, U.S. Seventh Fleet

Recorded as: COMSEVENTHFLT

The U.S. Navy fleet command in the western Pacific and Indian Ocean.

Naval commands announce the areas and times of exercises, firings and other operations that other ships should avoid. The same areas are often used again and again, so the archive shows how regularly a range is active.

What the archive holds

76 messages in this archive record COMSEVENTHFLT as their authority, issued from 1999-08-05 to 2022-08-21. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Ordnance accounts for 63 of 76 recorded messages (83%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

Attributed to NAVAREAs, they fall mostly in NAVAREA XI (1) and NAVAREA XII (1).

Located messages lie in 8 sea areas, most often Philippine Sea, North Pacific Ocean and Japan Sea.

The largest yearly count is 2002, with 21 messages.

Across all years its messages are issued most often in March and least often in June.

They reached this archive through HYDROPAC (75) and NAVAREA XII (1).

Messages by year of issue

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By month of issue, all years

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA XI 1 · NAVAREA XII 1

Most recently issued

  1. HYDROPAC 2289/22 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2022-08-21
    Gunnery operations 2300Z to 1355Z daily 21 thru 24 aug in areas within three miles of: a. 13-26N 145-08E
  2. HYDROPAC 1937/22 · Derelicts · North Pacific Ocean2022-07-16
    Derelict 433 foot M/V angel 33 adrift in 01-12.70N 149-16.30E at 161624Z jul
  3. HYDROPAC 485/20 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2020-02-11
    Hazardous operations in progress until 100900Z mar in area within one mile of 07-26-48N 151-50-23E
  4. HYDROPAC 2646/14 · Ordnance2014-09-09
    Underwater ordnance detonations 112200Z to 120700Z sep, alternate 122200Z to 130700Z sep in areas between:…
  5. HYDROPAC 2768/11 · Ordnance2011-10-02
    Underwater ordnance detonations 051100Z to 060900Z oct in areas between: a. 34-30.900N 34-36.200N and…
  6. HYDROPAC 2285/11 · Ordnance · South China Sea2011-08-15
    Underwater ordnance detonations 170030Z to 171500Z aug in area bound by 19-22N 118-16E, 20-11N 119-08E,…
  7. HYDROPAC 704/11 · Ordnance · Japan Sea2011-03-05
    Underwater ordnance detonations 052200Z to 060830Z mar within one mile of: a. 36-09-11.71N 129-26-42.31E
  8. HYDROPAC 547/10 · Ordnance2010-03-19
    Underwater ordnance detonations 201500Z to 261459Z mar in area between 34-29.7N 34-37.0N and 127-58.4E…

Earliest in the archive

  1. HYDROPAC 724/99 · Ordnance · South China Sea1999-08-04
    Ordnance jettison areas established 070001Z to 100001Z aug within five miles of: a. 01-40N 106-00E

Other naval commands in NAVAREA XI

Counts are messages recording this issuer as their authority, recounted 2026-09-24; see coverage for what is collected. Not for navigation.

Commander, U.S. Seventh Fleet — navigational warnings it issued · seahazards