Ordnance drop exercises 150400Z to 151800Z oct within 20 miles of 41-20N 018-30E
Adriatic Sea · HYDROLANT 3450/00
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2000-10-13 05:10Z
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) · USS BRISCOE REQ #101501 081226Z OCT 00; WZ 1949/00 100744Z OCT 00. Issued 2000-10-10 09:10Z. 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
- Adriatic Sea. The parsed report position is 41.333, 18.500 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.
Related notices and cancellation links
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-10-15 04:00Z | 2000-10-15 18:00Z | — | 14 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2000-10-10 09:10Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2000-10-15 19:00Z
- authority
- USS BRISCOE REQ #101501 081226Z OCT 00; WZ 1949/00 100744Z OCT 00
- issued by
- USS BRISCOE REQ
- sea
- Adriatic Sea
- position
- 41.333, 18.500 · r 20.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. ORDNANCE DROP EXERCISES 150400Z TO 151800Z OCT WITHIN 20 MILES OF 41-20N 018-30E. 2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 3411/00(36), OPERATIONS SUSPENDED. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 151900Z OCT.
Reading this warning
- Unexploded ordnance
- Bombs, shells, mines or torpedoes found on the seabed or washed up, and the operations to remove or destroy them.
- 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · ordnance operations
19 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now
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.
- Bombing exercises 011201Z to 282359Z feb within 25 miles of 38-38N 018-32E2010-01-31
- Underwater ordnance detonations 200001Z to 212359Z jun in area bound by 41-21N 017-27E, 41-17N 017-39E,…2001-06-15
- Ordnance detonations 0700Z to 1600Z daily 29 and 30 nov in area bound by 42-09N 016-00E, 42-41N 016-20E,…2000-11-24
- Ordnance drop exercises 160400Z to 161800Z oct within 20 miles of 41-20N 018-30E2000-10-11
- Unexploded ordnance in 41-21-33N 016-20-00E2000-08-09
- Ordnance clearing operations in progress until further notice within six miles of 41-35.0N 016-32.3E1999-06-27
Month of issue in the collected archive
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
0 ordnance operations listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 03:18Z; source collection times vary.
Ordnance
Ordnance disposal, underwater detonations and unexploded ordnance. All current ordnance operations →
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.