Ordnance

Bombing exercises: a. 020600Z to 022000Z dec in area between 34-00N 35-00N and 027-00E 028-00E

Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin · HYDROLANT 2297/10

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2010-12-09 21:00Z

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) · COMCARSTRKGRU TEN 301252Z NOV 10.. Issued 2010-11-30 15:29Z. 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: Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin. 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 Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin →

Activity windows · 3 in this warning

opens (UTC)	closes (UTC)	local	length
2010-12-02 06:00Z	2010-12-02 20:00Z	—	14 h
2010-12-07 06:00Z	2010-12-07 20:00Z	—	14 h
2010-12-09 06:00Z	2010-12-09 20:00Z	—	14 h

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

issued: 2010-11-30 15:29Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2010-12-09 21:00Z
authority: COMCARSTRKGRU TEN 301252Z NOV 10.
issued by: COMCARSTRKGRU TEN
sea: Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin
position: 37.778, 3.222
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
IONIAN SEA.
WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
ORDNANCE.
1. BOMBING EXERCISES:
   A. 020600Z TO 022000Z DEC
      IN AREA BETWEEN
      34-00N 35-00N AND 027-00E 028-00E.
   B. 070600Z TO 072000Z DEC
      IN AREA BETWEEN
      36-00N 35-00N AND 017-10E 019-00E.
   C. 090600Z TO 092000Z DEC
      IN AREA BOUND BY
      38-00N 002-00E, 38-00N 004-00E,
      37-30N 004-00E, 37-30N 003-00E,
      37-21N 002-00.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 092100Z DEC.

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.
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.
Area bound by: Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
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

3 within 180 nm since 2010 · 0 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

Cable operations by MV maasvliet (IMO-9996915) days 281200 UTC sep 26 until further notice in the segments:…Cable ops · 97.1 nm
Hazardous operations 290001Z to 302359Z oct in area bound by 38-30.60N 000-30.80E, 38-35.50N 000-46.40E,…Exercises · 107.9 nm
Drifting target shooting exercise from 290001 to 292359 UTC oct 26 or 300001 to 302359 UTC oct 26Other · 107.9 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 ordnance operations listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 20:28Z; source collection times vary.

Ordnance

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

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