Exercises

Hazardous operations

Brazil-south Coast · HYDROLANT 778/12

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2012-04-17 22:00Z

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 V S 460/12 080058Z APR 12 - WZ 489/12 072116Z APR 12 - WZ 490/12 080249Z APR 12 - JRCC STAVANGER 080217Z APR 12.. Issued 2012-04-08 08:20Z. 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
Brazil-south Coast. No usable coordinates were parsed; a location-based nearby search is unavailable. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2012-04-13 15:00Z2012-04-17 21:00Z—102 h

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

issued
2012-04-08 08:20Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2012-04-17 22:00Z
authority
NAVAREA V S 460/12 080058Z APR 12 - WZ 489/12 072116Z APR 12 - WZ 490/12 080249Z APR 12 - JRCC STAVANGER 080217Z APR 12.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA V · named as the source of this relay
issued by
NAVAREA V S
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

BRAZIL-SOUTH COAST.
HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 131500Z TO 172100Z APR
   IN AREA BETWEEN
   23-12S 23-42S AND 043-25W 044-05W.
2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 763/12(37), OPERATIONS COMPLETED.
3. CANCEL HYDROLANT 772/12(35), SERVICE RESTORED.
4. CANCEL HYDROLANT 776/12(51), ASSISTANCE RECEIVED.
5. CANCEL THIS MSG 172200Z APR.

Reading this warning

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.
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.

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

No parsed position is available for this comparison.

Worldwide in the collected sources

28 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 07:44Z; 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.