Hazardous operations 0900Z to 1600Z daily until 10 dec within ten miles of 53-39.2N 006-13.2W
Irish Sea and St. George's Channel · HYDROLANT 1911/04
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2004-12-10 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) · WZ 1476/04 291521Z NOV 04.. Issued 2004-11-29 17:16Z. 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
- Irish Sea and St. George's Channel. The parsed report position is 53.653, -6.220 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 Irish Sea and St. George's Channel →
- issued
- 2004-11-29 17:16Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2004-12-10 17:00Z
- authority
- WZ 1476/04 291521Z NOV 04.
- issued by
- WZ
- sea
- Irish Sea and St. George's Channel
- position
- 53.653, -6.220 · r 10.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 0900Z TO 1600Z DAILY UNTIL 10 DEC WITHIN TEN MILES OF 53-39.2N 006-13.2W. WIDE BERTH REQUESTED. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 101700Z DEC.
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.
- 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.
- Wide berth requested
- Keep well clear — or, when a distance is given ("TWO MILE BERTH REQUESTED"), at least that far away.
- 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
4 within 180 nm since 2004 · 1 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 301100Z aug thru 030001Z sep in area bound by 53-08.40N 006-03.50W, 53-08.40N…2026-08-29
- Hazardous operations 0900Z to 1500Z daily 01 thru 04 oct in area within 11 miles of 52-26.39N 004-49.50W2024-09-30
- Hazardous operations 021200Z to 022300Z, 030800Z to 040100Z, and 040800Z to 050200Z within five miles of…2006-05-02
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
9 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-04 00:37Z; 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.