Exercises

Hazardous operations are taking place off Brazil in the South Atlantic within ten miles of 14-22.00S 038-34.00W from 28 to 29 September.

South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 1882/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-09-23 14:45Z

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 2026-09-23 09:27Z. First collected 2026-09-23 15:02Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-24 12:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
South Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is -14.367, -38.567 with a 10.0 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 South Atlantic Ocean

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2026-09-28 11:00Z2026-09-29 18:00Z31 h

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

issued
2026-09-23 09:27Z
status
Cancelled notice
self-cancels
2026-09-29 19:00Z
sea
South Atlantic Ocean
position
-14.367, -38.567 · r 10.0 nm
source
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-23 15:02Z

Original warning text

SOUTH ATLANTIC.
BRAZIL.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 281100Z TO 291800Z SEP
   IN AREA WITHIN TEN MILES OF
   14-22.00S 038-34.00W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 291900Z SEP 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.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · military exercises

159 within 180 nm since 2004 · 1 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

04
05
10
15
20
25
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

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
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

17 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-24 12:21Z; 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.