Bombing exercises in progress until 312359Z jan within 25 miles of 34-30N 015-25E
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin · HYDROLANT 2536/10
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2010-12-31 09:34Z
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 466/10 310010Z DEC 10.. Issued 2010-12-31 00:25Z. 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 - Eastern Basin. The parsed report position is 34.500, 15.417 with a 25.0 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
- Bombing exercises in progress until 312359Z dec within 25 miles of 34-30N 015-25Ecancelled by this notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin →
- issued
- 2010-12-31 00:25Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2011-02-01 00:59Z
- authority
- NAVAREA III 466/10 310010Z DEC 10.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
- position
- 34.500, 15.417 · r 25.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA. ORDNANCE. 1. BOMBING EXERCISES IN PROGRESS UNTIL 312359Z JAN WITHIN 25 MILES OF 34-30N 015-25E. 2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 2347/10. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 010059Z FEB 11.
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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROLANT
- The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · ordnance operations
14 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.
- Ordnance jettison areas established 302359Z apr to 312359Z may: a. within ten miles of 33-37N 015-18E2011-04-27
- Emergency ordnance jettison area established until 302359Z apr within ten miles of 33-37N 015-18E2011-03-27
- Bombing exercises 070001Z to 312359Z mar within 25 miles of 34-44N 015-40E2011-03-05
- Bombing exercises 010001Z to 282359Z feb within 25 miles of 34-30N 015-25E2011-01-30
- Bombing exercises 010001Z to 312359Z jan within 25 miles of 34-30N 015-25E2010-12-30
- Bombing exercises in progress until 312359Z dec within 25 miles of 34-30N 015-25E2010-12-05
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 ordnance operations listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 23:30Z; 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.