Ordnance

Underwater ordnance detonations 190001Z to 200930Z jul within 130 miles of 70-13N 016-26W

Greenland Sea · HYDROLANT 1985/01

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2001-07-20 10:30Z

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) · CTG 84.1 102300Z JUL 01. Issued 2001-07-14 09:45Z. 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
Greenland Sea. The parsed report position is 70.217, -16.433 with a 130.0 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 Greenland Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2001-07-19 00:01Z2001-07-20 09:30Z—33 h 29

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

issued
2001-07-14 09:45Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2001-07-20 10:30Z
authority
CTG 84.1 102300Z JUL 01
issued by
CTG
sea
Greenland Sea
position
70.217, -16.433 · r 130.0 nm
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. UNDERWATER ORDNANCE DETONATIONS 190001Z TO 200930Z JUL
   WITHIN 130 MILES OF 70-13N 016-26W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 201030Z JUL.

Reading this warning

Unexploded ordnance
Bombs, shells, mines or torpedoes found on the seabed or washed up, and the operations to remove or destroy them.
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 · ordnance operations

35 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

99
00
03

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

0 ordnance operations listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 17:42Z; source collection times vary.

Ordnance

Ordnance disposal, underwater detonations and unexploded ordnance. All current ordnance operations →

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.