Exercises

Gunnery exercises 010001Z mar to 152359Z apr in area bound by 39-11.3N 009-44.3E, 39-11.6N 010-00.3E,…

Tyrrhenian Sea · HYDROLANT 719/20

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2020-04-16 00:59Z

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 296/20 270013Z FEB 20.. Issued 2020-02-27 01:46Z. 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
Tyrrhenian Sea. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Tyrrhenian Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2020-03-01 00:01Z2020-04-15 23:59Z—1103 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
2020-02-27 01:46Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2020-04-16 00:59Z
authority
NAVAREA III 296/20 270013Z FEB 20.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
sea
Tyrrhenian Sea
position
38.734, 9.497
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
TYRRHENIAN SEA.
SARDINIA.
DNC 08.
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 010001Z MAR TO 152359Z APR
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   39-11.3N 009-44.3E, 39-11.6N 010-00.3E,
   39-12.6N 010-19.3E, 39-01.5N 009-45.2E,
   38-55.4N 009-58.2E, 38-50.4N 010-09.8E,
   38-44.0N 010-22.7E, 38-14.8N 008-49.4E,
   38-25.1N 008-50.5E, 38-34.9N 008-51.1E,
   38-45.1N 008-51.7E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 160059Z APR 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.
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.
Area bound by
Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
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

349 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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

9 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 17:14Z; 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.