Exercises

Hazardous operations 170001Z to 272359Z feb in area within four miles of 37-27N 026-57E

Aegean Sea · HYDROLANT 549/20

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2020-02-28 01:00Z

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 217/20 151209Z FEB 20.. Issued 2020-02-15 12:29Z. 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: Aegean Sea. The parsed report position is 37.450, 26.950 with a 4.0 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 Aegean Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)	closes (UTC)	local	length
2020-02-17 00:01Z	2020-02-27 23:59Z	—	263 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: 2020-02-15 12:29Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2020-02-28 01:00Z
authority: NAVAREA III 217/20 151209Z FEB 20.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
sea: Aegean Sea
position: 37.450, 26.950 · r 4.0 nm
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

AEGEAN SEA.
DNC 09, DNC 10.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 170001Z TO 272359Z FEB
   IN AREA WITHIN FOUR MILES OF 37-27N 026-57E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 280100Z FEB 20.

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

1227 within 180 nm since 1998 · 1 in the last 12 months · 1 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.

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

Hazardous operations sunrise to sunset daily until 14 jun and 16 sep thru 31 dec in area bound by 38-16.00N…Exercises · 82.3 nm
Missile operations 0530Z to sunset daily every wednesday thru saturday until 14 jun and 16 seb thru 31 dec…Missiles · 118 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

32 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-27 22:56Z; 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.