Russia warns of hazardous operations in the Barents Sea daily from 0500 to 1900 UTC, October 1 through 6, within a bounded area.
Barentsz Sea · HYDROARC 269/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-09-29 13:30Z
This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-09-28 17:31Z. First collected 2026-09-29 16:32Z; last seen in collection 2026-10-02 10:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Barentsz Sea. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Activity windows · 6 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-01 05:00Z | 2026-10-01 19:00Z | — | 14 h |
| 2026-10-02 05:00Z | 2026-10-02 19:00Z | — | 14 h |
| 2026-10-03 05:00Z | 2026-10-03 19:00Z | — | 14 h |
| 2026-10-04 05:00Z | 2026-10-04 19:00Z | — | 14 h |
| 2026-10-05 05:00Z | 2026-10-05 19:00Z | — | 14 h |
| 2026-10-06 05:00Z | 2026-10-06 19:00Z | — | 14 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2026-09-28 17:31Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-10-06 20:00Z
- sea
- Barentsz Sea
- position
- 69.513, 36.183
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-29 16:32Z
Original warning text
BARENTS SEA. RUSSIA. 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 0500Z TO 1900Z DAILY 01 THRU 06 OCT IN AREA BOUND BY 69-40.00N 035-20.00E, 69-40.00N 037-02.00E, 69-21.50N 037-02.00E, 69-21.50N 035-20.00E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 062000Z OCT 26.
Reading this warning
- Hazardous operations
- NGA's heading for activities that make an area dangerous — most often rocket launches, space debris and weapons firings, and some open-ended danger areas.
- Area bound by
- Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
- Position (degrees and minutes)
- How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
- Date-time group (DTG)
- A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
123 within 180 nm since 2011 · 5 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now
Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.
- Hazardous operations 0500Z to 1900Z daily 01 thru 04 oct in area bound by 69-58.00N 033-38.00E, 69-58.00N…2026-09-25
- Hazardous operations 190600Z to 191700Z sep in area bound by 69-43.10N 033-38.00E, 69-43.10N 034-10.80E,…2026-09-10
- Hazardous operations 0600Z to 1700Z daily 14 thru 18 sep in area bound by 69-43.10N 033-38.00E, 69-43.10N…2026-09-09
- Hazardous operations 0500Z to 1900Z daily 05 thru 10 sep in area bound by 70-12.00N 033-36.00E, 70-12.00N…2026-09-02
- Hazardous operations 0500Z to 1900Z daily 06 thru 08 may in area bound by 70-03.60N 035-26.30E, 70-03.60N…2024-05-02
- Hazardous operations 0700Z to 1700Z daily 29 and 30 mar in area bound by 69-58.00N 033-42.00E, 69-58.00N…2024-03-25
Month of issue in the collected archive
All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.
Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm
No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.
Worldwide in the collected sources
28 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 10:30Z; source collection times vary.
Exercises
Gunnery, firing and naval exercise areas. All current military exercises →
Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.