Exercises

Gunnery exercises 0700Z to 1000Z daily 24 thru 26 sep in area between 37-00N 37-11N and 015-25E 015-30E

HYDROLANT 1812/03

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2003-09-26 11:00Z

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) · 1. MARISICILIA 350/03 220920Z SEP 03; 2. MARISICILIA 351/03 220940Z SEP 03.. Issued 2003-09-22 10:50Z. 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
No named location parsed. No usable coordinates were parsed; a location-based nearby search is unavailable. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Related notices and cancellation links

Activity windows · 3 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2003-09-24 07:00Z2003-09-24 10:00Z—3 h
2003-09-25 07:00Z2003-09-25 10:00Z—3 h
2003-09-26 07:00Z2003-09-26 10:00Z—3 h

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

issued
2003-09-22 10:50Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2003-09-26 11:00Z
authority
1. MARISICILIA 350/03 220920Z SEP 03; 2. MARISICILIA 351/03 220940Z SEP 03.
issued by
MARISICILIA
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 0700Z TO 1000Z DAILY 24 THRU 26 SEP
   IN AREA BETWEEN 37-00N 37-11N AND 015-25E 015-30E.
2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 1692/03, OPERATIONS COMPLETED.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 261100Z SEP.

Reading this warning

Gunnery and live firing
Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
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.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROLANT
The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.
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.

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

No parsed position is available for this comparison.

Worldwide in the collected sources

10 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 05:09Z; 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.