Exercises

Hazardous operations

Eastern Mediterranean Sea · Tunisia-east Coast · HYDROLANT 3527/16

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2017-10-03 17:42Z

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 757/16 301158Z DEC 16.. Issued 2016-12-30 11:59Z. 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
Eastern Mediterranean Sea · Tunisia-east Coast. No usable coordinates were parsed; a location-based nearby search is unavailable. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Related notices and cancellation links

issued
2016-12-30 11:59Z
status
Archived notice
authority
NAVAREA III 757/16 301158Z DEC 16.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
TUNISIA-EAST COAST.
HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS.
DNC 08.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 01 JAN THRU 31 DEC 17
   IN AREA BETWEEN
   35-30N 35-40N AND 011-30E 011-50E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 01 JAN 18.

Reading this warning

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.
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.
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.

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

No parsed position is available for this comparison.

Worldwide in the collected sources

31 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-29 01:44Z; 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.