Gunnery exercises 1500Z to 2200Z daily 14 and 15 mar in area within five miles of 43-47.12N 001-51.15W
Bay of Biscay · HYDROLANT 715/22
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2022-03-15 23:00Z
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) · AVURNAV BREST 131/22 031200Z MAR 22.. Issued 2022-03-11 12:15Z. 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
- Bay of Biscay. The parsed report position is 43.785, -1.853 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 Bay of Biscay →
- issued
- 2022-03-11 12:15Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2022-03-15 23:00Z
- authority
- AVURNAV BREST 131/22 031200Z MAR 22.
- issued by
- AVURNAV BREST
- sea
- Bay of Biscay
- position
- 43.785, -1.853 · r 5.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
BAY OF BISCAY. FRANCE. DNC 08. 1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 1500Z TO 2200Z DAILY 14 AND 15 MAR IN AREA WITHIN FIVE MILES OF 43-47.12N 001-51.15W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 152300Z MAR 22.
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.
- Gunnery and live firing
- Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
- 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
49 within 180 nm since 2009 · 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.
- Hazardous operations 301100 to 301400 and 301900Z to 302200Z apr in area bound by 44-35.00N 001-32.00W,…2024-04-26
- Hazardous operations 041500Z to 041800Z and 042030Z to 042300Z apr in area bound by 44-31.00N 001-34.00W,…2024-04-02
- Torpedo operations 091000Z to 091700Z jan in area within 40 miles of 45-20.00N 004-40.00W2024-01-05
- Gunnery exercises 1300Z to 1900Z daily 04 thru 07 dec in area bound by 45-03.00N 001-32.00W, 45-03.00N…2023-12-01
- Gunnery exercises 051300Z to 051500Z, 060930Z to 061130Z, 061300Z to 061500Z, and 081000Z to 081200Z dec in…2023-11-30
- Gunnery exercises 1400Z to 2000Z daily 27 and 28 nov in area bound by 45-03.00N 001-32.00W, 45-03.00N…2023-11-24
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
9 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 23:16Z; 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.