Exercises

Gunnery exercises 040700Z to 041600Z sep in area bound by 44-00N 009-28E, 44-00N 009-53E, 43-45N 009-53E,…

Ligurian Sea · HYDROLANT 3043/00

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2000-09-04 17:00Z

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) · MARIDIPART LASPEZIA 249/00 011106Z SEP 00; WZ 1703/00 011444Z SEP 00. Issued 2000-09-01 15:49Z. 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
Ligurian 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.

Related notices and cancellation links

Current notices and reporting history in the Ligurian Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2000-09-04 07:00Z2000-09-04 16:00Z—9 h

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

issued
2000-09-01 15:49Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2000-09-04 17:00Z
authority
MARIDIPART LASPEZIA 249/00 011106Z SEP 00; WZ 1703/00 011444Z SEP 00
issued by
MARIDIPART LASPEZIA
sea
Ligurian Sea
position
43.887, 9.717
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 040700Z TO 041600Z SEP IN AREA BOUND BY
   44-00N 009-28E, 44-00N 009-53E, 43-45N 009-53E, 43-45N 009-39E.
2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 2984/00(37), OPERATIONS COMPLETED.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 041700Z SEP.

Reading this warning

Gunnery and live firing
Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
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.
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.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · military exercises

237 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

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

28 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 00:58Z; 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.