Exercises

Hazardous operations 050600Z to 051400Z and 0600Z to 1400Z daily 07 thru 09 oct in area within nine miles of…

Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin · HYDROLANT 2999/20

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2020-10-09 15:00Z

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 1271/20 231316Z SEP 20.. Issued 2020-10-03 11:15Z. 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 35.932, 14.476 with a 9.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin →

Activity windows · 4 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2020-10-05 06:00Z2020-10-05 14:00Z—8 h
2020-10-07 06:00Z2020-10-07 14:00Z—8 h
2020-10-08 06:00Z2020-10-08 14:00Z—8 h
2020-10-09 06:00Z2020-10-09 14:00Z—8 h

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

issued
2020-10-03 11:15Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2020-10-09 15:00Z
authority
NAVAREA III 1271/20 231316Z SEP 20.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
sea
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
position
35.932, 14.476 · r 9.0 nm
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
MALTA.
DNC 09.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 050600Z TO 051400Z AND
   0600Z TO 1400Z DAILY 07 THRU 09 OCT IN AREA
   WITHIN NINE MILES OF 35-55.90N 014-28.53E
   BETWEEN 335 DEGREES AND 060 DEGREES.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 091500Z OCT 20.

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.
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.
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

239 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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

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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

10 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 07:14Z; 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.