Exercises

Hazardous operations are taking place off Morocco in the North Atlantic from 30 September 00:01 UTC to 30 September 23:59 UTC in a defined area.

North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 1932/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-09-30 15:00Z

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 2026-09-29 15:45Z. First collected 2026-09-30 16:02Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-30 21:32Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: North Atlantic Ocean. 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 North Atlantic Ocean →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)	closes (UTC)	local	length
2026-09-30 00:01Z	2026-09-30 23:59Z	—	23 h 58

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

issued: 2026-09-29 15:45Z
status: Cancelled notice
self-cancels: 2026-10-01 01:00Z
sea: North Atlantic Ocean
position: 33.822, -8.212
source: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-30 16:02Z

Original warning text

NORTH ATLANTIC.
MOROCCO.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 300001Z TO 302359Z SEP
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   33-41.00N 008-03.00W, 33-41.00N 008-26.00W,
   33-50.50N 008-23.90W, 33-58.60N 008-14.30W,
   34-01.00N 008-03.00W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 010100Z 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.
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.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · military exercises

66 within 180 nm since 2001 · 6 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.

Special operations2026-09-29
Hazardous operations 170001Z to 172359Z sep in area bound by 33-41.00N 008-03.00W, 33-41.00N 008-26.00W,…2026-09-16
Special operations2026-09-16
Special operations2026-09-15
Special operations2026-09-15
Hazardous operations in progress until 31 dec in area bound by 33-41.00N 008-03.00W, 33-41.00N 008-26.91W,…2024-08-23

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

Special operationsExercises · 11.6 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

30 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-30 21:46Z; 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.