Exercises

Gunnery exercises 0700Z to 1400Z and 1600Z to 1800Z daily 04 and 05 may in area between 32-45.4N 32-39.3N…

HYDROLANT 728/04

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2004-05-05 19:00Z

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 223/04 300723Z APR 04; WZ 580/04 292227Z APR 04; UKMRCC AOR-E EGC#483 291900Z APR 04. Issued 2004-04-30 09:50Z. 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
No named location parsed. No usable coordinates were parsed; a location-based nearby search is unavailable. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Related notices and cancellation links

issued
2004-04-30 09:50Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2004-05-05 19:00Z
authority
NAVAREA III 223/04 300723Z APR 04; WZ 580/04 292227Z APR 04; UKMRCC AOR-E EGC#483 291900Z APR 04
NAVAREA
NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 0700Z TO 1400Z AND 1600Z TO 1800Z
   DAILY 04 AND 05 MAY IN AREA BETWEEN
   32-45.4N 32-39.3N AND 034-50.0E 034-42.8E.
2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 654/04(36), OPERATIONS COMPLETED.
3. CANCEL HYDROLANT 726/04(37,51), PERSONS RESCUED.
4. CANCEL THIS MSG 051900Z MAY.

Reading this warning

Gunnery and live firing
Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
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.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROLANT
The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.
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.

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

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Worldwide in the collected sources

9 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-04 02:00Z; 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.