Exercises

Hazardous operations

Adriatic Sea · HYDROLANT 1334/14

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2014-05-29 17:00Z

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 III 278/14 28 MAY 14.. Issued 2014-05-28 13:00Z. 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
Adriatic Sea. The parsed report position is 45.212, 12.878 with a 5.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Adriatic Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2014-05-29 10:00Z2014-05-29 16:00Z—6 h

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

issued
2014-05-28 13:00Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2014-05-29 17:00Z
authority
NAVAREA III 278/14 28 MAY 14.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
sea
Adriatic Sea
position
45.212, 12.878 · r 5.0 nm
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

NORTHERN ADRIATIC SEA.
HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 291000Z TO 291600Z MAY
   WITHIN FIVE MILES OF 45-12.7N 012-52.7E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 291700Z MAY 14.

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.
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

178 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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05
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20
21

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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F
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A
M
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D

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 2026-10-03 03:15Z; 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.