Exercises

Hazardous operations

Sea of Azov · HYDROLANT 2242/16

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2016-08-31 16:00Z

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) · NAVAREA III 531/16 301956Z AUG 16.. Issued 2016-08-30 20:32Z. 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: Sea of Azov. 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 Sea of Azov →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)	closes (UTC)	local	length
2016-08-31 03:00Z	2016-08-31 15:00Z	—	12 h

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

issued: 2016-08-30 20:32Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2016-08-31 16:00Z
authority: NAVAREA III 531/16 301956Z AUG 16.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
sea: Sea of Azov
position: 45.126, 36.551
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

BLACK SEA.
KERCH STRAIT.
HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS.
DNC 10.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 310300Z TO 311500Z AUG
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   45-03.0N 036-36.4E, 45-10.6N 036-28.8E,
   45-13.0N 036-28.8E, 45-03.5N 036-38.2E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 311600Z AUG 16.

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.
DNC (Digital Nautical Chart): A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · military exercises

1179 within 180 nm since 1999 · 2 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.

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

10 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 08:37Z; 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.