Exercises

Hazardous operations 010001Z feb to 312359Z mar in area within 20 miles of 35-22N 004-05W between 270…

Alboran Sea · HYDROLANT 312/17

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2017-04-01 00:59Z

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 63/17 301201Z JAN 17.. Issued 2017-01-30 12:21Z. 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
2017-02-01 00:01Z2017-03-31 23:59Z—1415 h 58

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

issued
2017-01-30 12:21Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2017-04-01 00:59Z
authority
NAVAREA III 63/17 301201Z JAN 17.
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 010001Z FEB TO 312359Z MAR
   IN AREA WITHIN 20 MILES OF 35-22N 004-05W
   BETWEEN 270 DEGREES AND 360 DEGREES.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 010059Z APR 17.

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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00
05
10
15
20
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

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
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

9 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 23:07Z; 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.