Hazardous operations
Adriatic Sea · HYDROLANT 2492/15
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2015-10-06 11:07Z
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 562/15 051450Z OCT 15.. Issued 2015-10-05 15:00Z. 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
- Adriatic Sea. The parsed report position is 45.212, 12.878 with a 5.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Hazardous operationslater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2015-10-05 15:00Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2015-10-07 16:00Z
- authority
- NAVAREA III 562/15 051450Z OCT 15.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Adriatic Sea
- position
- 45.212, 12.878 · r 5.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
NORTHERN ADRIATIC SEA. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS. DNC 09. 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 1100Z TO 1500Z DAILY 06 AND 07 OCT WITHIN FIVE MILES OF 45-12.7N 012-52.7E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 071600Z OCT 15.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
178 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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.
- Hazardous operations 021100Z to 031600Z jun in areas bound by: a. 45-15.6N 012-45.2E, 45-18.2N 012-54.1E,…2021-05-31
- Hazardous operations 0900Z to 1600Z daily 21 thru 23 apr in vicinity 45-35.72N 013-36.70E2021-04-19
- Hazardous operations 201100Z to 201700Z apr in area bound by 45-17.0N 012-52.0E, 45-17.0N 012-57.0E,…2021-04-19
- Hazardous operations 201100Z to 201700Z daily in area bound by 45-17.0N 012-52.0E, 45-17.0N 012-57.0E,…2021-04-15
- Hazardous operations 261100Z to 261700Z nov in area bound by 45-17.0N 012-52.0E, 45-17.0N 012-57.0E,…2019-11-22
- Hazardous operations 1000Z to 1600Z daily 19, 26 and 27 nov in area bound by 45-17.0N 012-52.5E, 45-17.0N…2019-11-15
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
9 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 02:40Z; 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.