Exercises

Turkey announces hazardous operations in the Black Sea from 30 September to 2 October, daily 1000Z to 1130Z, in a defined area; message cancels 2 October at 1230Z.

Black Sea · HYDROLANT 1920/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-09-28 16:45Z

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 2026-09-27 17:55Z. First collected 2026-09-28 19:32Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-29 03:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Black Sea. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Black Sea →

Activity windows · 3 in this warning

opens (UTC)	closes (UTC)	local	length
2026-09-30 10:00Z	2026-09-30 11:30Z	—	1 h 30
2026-10-01 10:00Z	2026-10-01 11:30Z	—	1 h 30
2026-10-02 10:00Z	2026-10-02 11:30Z	—	1 h 30

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

issued: 2026-09-27 17:55Z
status: Cancelled notice
self-cancels: 2026-10-02 12:30Z
sea: Black Sea
position: 42.133, 36.460
source: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-28 19:32Z

Original warning text

BLACK SEA.
TURKEY.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 1000Z TO 1130Z
   DAILY 30 SEP THRU 02 OCT IN AREA BOUND BY
   41-10.77N 040-50.82E, 41-04.83N 040-29.55E,
   42-01.32N 035-13.48E, 42-03.35N 035-10.43E,
   42-06.15N 035-00.88E, 42-06.50N 034-56.10E,
   41-58.57N 034-41.63E, 42-03.78N 033-19.17E,
   42-05.00N 032-16.68E, 42-12.17N 031-44.12E,
   42-47.13N 031-39.30E, 42-47.85N 032-49.68E,
   42-46.83N 034-05.27E, 42-41.00N 037-40.00E,
   41-35.35N 041-01.92E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 021230Z OCT 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.
Area bound by: Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
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.
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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Collected reports in this area · military exercises

709 within 180 nm since 1999 · 2 in the last 12 months · 1 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.

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

Worldwide in the collected sources

31 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-29 03:17Z; 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.