Ordnance

Bombing exercises 070001Z to 312359Z mar within 25 miles of 34-44N 015-40E

Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin · HYDROLANT 369/11

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2011-03-24 11:53Z

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) · CTF 69 041853Z MAR 11.. Issued 2011-03-05 10:23Z. 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 parsed report position is 34.733, 15.667 with a 25.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2011-03-07 00:01Z2011-03-31 23:59Z—599 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
2011-03-05 10:23Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2011-04-01 00:59Z
authority
CTF 69 041853Z MAR 11.
issued by
CTF
sea
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
position
34.733, 15.667 · r 25.0 nm
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
ORDNANCE.
1. BOMBING EXERCISES 070001Z TO 312359Z MAR
   WITHIN 25 MILES OF 34-44N 015-40E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 010059Z APR.

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.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Collected reports in this area · ordnance operations

17 within 180 nm since 2010 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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11

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

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 ordnance operations listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 23:29Z; source collection times vary.

Ordnance

Ordnance disposal, underwater detonations and unexploded ordnance. All current ordnance operations →

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