Exercises

Gunnery exercises 041000Z to 041200Z apr within five miles of 43-37-48N 009-58-00W

North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 550/11

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2011-04-04 13:00Z

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) · CTF 69 310753Z MAR 11.. Issued 2011-04-01 08:39Z. 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
North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 43.630, -9.967 with a 5.0 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 North Atlantic Ocean →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2011-04-04 10:00Z2011-04-04 12:00Z—2 h

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

issued
2011-04-01 08:39Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2011-04-04 13:00Z
authority
CTF 69 310753Z MAR 11.
issued by
CTF
sea
North Atlantic Ocean
position
43.630, -9.967 · r 5.0 nm
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EASTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.
GUNNERY.
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 041000Z TO 041200Z APR
   WITHIN FIVE MILES OF 43-37-48N 009-58-00W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 041300Z APR.

Reading this warning

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.
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

19 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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

10 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 09:56Z; 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.