Exercises

Gunnery exercises 070600z to 071000Z nov in area bound by 36-05.00N 028-44.00E, 36-02.40N 029-20.60E,…

Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin · HYDROLANT 3387/19

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2019-11-05 12:21Z

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) · TURKEY 295/19 311536Z OCT 19.. Issued 2019-11-04 06:39Z. 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 map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2019-11-07 06:00Z2019-11-07 10:00Z—4 h

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

issued
2019-11-04 06:39Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2019-11-07 11:00Z
authority
TURKEY 295/19 311536Z OCT 19.
issued by
TURKEY
sea
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
position
35.621, 29.059
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
DNC 10.
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 070600z TO 071000Z NOV
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   36-05.00N 028-44.00E, 36-02.40N 029-20.60E,
   36-04.37N 029-23.12E, 35-58.80N 029-38.05E,
   35-03.00N 029-38.00E, 35-30.00N 028-10.00E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 071100Z NOV 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.
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.
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

643 within 180 nm since 1998 · 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 01:31Z; 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.