Exercises

Hazardous operations take place daily in the Aegean Sea until 14 June and from 16 September to 31 December, in a defined area.

Aegean Sea · HYDROLANT 236/26

What this record establishes

Listed in force

The latest collected record lists this warning as active. This is the status of the notice, not a live observation of conditions at the location.

Source and dates: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-02-03 17:37Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-10-01 04:47Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Aegean 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 Aegean Sea →

issued: 2026-02-03 17:37Z
status: Listed in force
self-cancels: 2027-01-01 00:01Z
sea: Aegean Sea
position: 37.894, 25.312
nearest port: Chios · 49 nm
source: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

AEGEAN SEA.
DNC 09.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS SUNRISE TO SUNSET
   DAILY UNTIL 14 JUN AND 16 SEP THRU 31 DEC
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   38-16.00N 025-21.00E, 37-46.00N 025-49.00E,
   37-34.00N 025-23.00E, 37-42.00N 025-01.00E,
   38-00.00N 024-52.00E, 38-02.00N 024-52.00E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 010001Z JAN 27.

Reading this warning

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.
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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Conditions at the position · now

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MET Norway · NOAA WaveWatch III · HYCOM · GEBCO 2020 · model data at the centroid, not an observation

Collected reports in this area · military exercises

1148 within 180 nm since 1998 · 2 in the last 12 months · 2 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

Missile operations 0530Z to sunset daily every wednesday thru saturday until 14 jun and 16 seb thru 31 dec…Missiles · 117.7 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

28 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 04:56Z; 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.