Exercises

Hazardous operations 312300Z jan to 292300Z mar in area within 20 miles of 35-22N 004-05W between 270…

Alboran Sea · HYDROLANT 306/19

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2019-03-30 00:01Z

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 132/19 301206Z JAN 19.. Issued 2019-01-30 13:19Z. 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
Alboran Sea. The parsed report position is 35.367, -4.083 with a 20.0 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 Alboran Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2019-01-31 23:00Z2019-03-29 23:00Z—1368 h

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

issued
2019-01-30 13:19Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2019-03-30 00:01Z
authority
NAVAREA III 132/19 301206Z JAN 19.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
sea
Alboran Sea
position
35.367, -4.083 · r 20.0 nm
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
ALBORAN SEA.
MOROCCO.
DNC 08.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 312300Z JAN TO
   292300Z MAR IN AREA WITHIN
   20 MILES OF 35-22N 004-05W
   BETWEEN 270 DEGREES AND 359 DEGREES.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 300001Z MAR 19.

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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · military exercises

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

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05
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15
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24

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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F
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A
M
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D

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

10 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 08:24Z; 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.