Exercises

Gunnery exercises 030001Z to 302359Z apr and 150001Z to 252359Z may in area within 20 miles of 33-41N…

North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 1014/17

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2017-04-24 13:52Z

This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.

Source and dates
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · NAVAREA II 103/17 280419Z MAR 17.. Issued 2017-03-29 02:16Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 33.683, -8.050 with a 20.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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Activity windows · 2 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2017-04-03 00:01Z2017-04-30 23:59Z—671 h 58
2017-05-15 00:01Z2017-05-25 23:59Z—263 h 58

Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.

issued
2017-03-29 02:16Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2017-05-26 00:59Z
authority
NAVAREA II 103/17 280419Z MAR 17.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
sea
North Atlantic Ocean
position
33.683, -8.050 · r 20.0 nm
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EASTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.
MOROCCO.
DNC 08.
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 030001Z TO 302359Z APR
   AND 150001Z TO 252359Z MAY
   IN AREA WITHIN 20 MILES OF 33-41N 008-03W
   BETWEEN 270 DEGREES AND 360 DEGREES.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 260059Z MAY 17.

Reading this warning

DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
Gunnery and live firing
Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
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.
Within a radius of
A circular area — every position within a stated distance of a point.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · military exercises

65 within 180 nm since 2001 · 6 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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26

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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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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

9 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-04 00:16Z; 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.