Naval command · United States

Commander, U.S. Third Fleet

Recorded as: COMTHIRDFLT

The U.S. Navy fleet command in the eastern and northern Pacific.

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

41 messages in this archive record COMTHIRDFLT as their authority, issued from 2014-07-26 to 2023-05-13. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Ordnance accounts for 39 of 41 recorded messages (95%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

All of those that can be attributed to a NAVAREA belong to NAVAREA XII.

Located messages lie in 1 sea area, most often North Pacific Ocean.

They reached this archive through NAVAREA XII (41).

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA XII 41

Most recently issued

  1. NAVAREA XII 282/23 · Ordnance · North Pacific Ocean2023-05-13
    Underwater ordnance detonation 160800Z to 161700Z may in area within one mile of 33-01.73N 118-35.32W
  2. NAVAREA XII 269/23 · Ordnance · North Pacific Ocean2023-05-06
    Underwater ordnance detonation 111500Z to 112200Z may in vicinity of 32-40.66N 117-09.19W
  3. NAVAREA XII 958/22 · Ordnance · North Pacific Ocean2022-12-08
    Underwater ordnance detonation 131600Z to 162300Z dec in area within 1.5 miles of 32-35.87N 117-10.87W
  4. NAVAREA XII 255/22 · Ordnance · North Pacific Ocean2022-04-18
    Underwater ordnance detonation 201500Z to 212300Z apr
  5. NAVAREA XII 144/22 · Ordnance · North Pacific Ocean2022-03-10
    Underwater ordnance detonations 151600Z to 172200Z mar in vicinity 32-35-52N 117-10-52W
  6. NAVAREA XII 15/22 · Ordnance · North Pacific Ocean2022-01-15
    Underwater ordnance detonations 191600Z to 202300Z jan in vicinity 32-35-50N 117-10-52W
  7. NAVAREA XII 700/21 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2021-12-14
    Hazardous operations in progress until 151500Z dec in area within one mile of 21-17-29N 157-59-14W
  8. NAVAREA XII 601/21 · Ordnance · North Pacific Ocean2021-10-15
    Underwater ordnance detonation 181400Z to 292200Z oct in vicinity 32-35-50N 117-10-52W

Earliest in the archive

  1. NAVAREA XII 249/14 · Ordnance · North Pacific Ocean2014-07-25
    Underwater ordnance detonations 1500Z to 2300Z daily 29 jul thru 01 aug within 500 yards of 32-35-53N…

Other naval commands in NAVAREA XII

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

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