Exercises

Gunnery exercises 112100Z to 112300Z apr in area bound by 17-13.00S 149-48.00W, 16-37.00S 150-08.00W,…

South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 1144/24

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2024-04-12 00:01Z

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 PAPEETE 33/24 091749Z APR 24.. Issued 2024-04-09 18:31Z. 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: South Pacific Ocean. 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 South Pacific Ocean →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)	closes (UTC)	local	length
2024-04-11 21:00Z	2024-04-11 23:00Z	—	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: 2024-04-09 18:31Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2024-04-12 00:01Z
authority: AVURNAV PAPEETE 33/24 091749Z APR 24.
issued by: AVURNAV PAPEETE
sea: South Pacific Ocean
position: -16.827, -149.796
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

SOUTH PACIFIC.
TAHITI.
DNC 06.
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 112100Z TO 112300Z APR
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   17-13.00S 149-48.00W, 16-37.00S 150-08.00W,
   16-30.00S 149-36.00W, 17-10.00S 149-36.00W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 120001Z APR 24.

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.

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Collected reports in this area · military exercises

281 within 180 nm since 2000 · 1 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.

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

Pointe aroa light 17-28.40S 149-46.50W unlitNav aids · 38.8 nm
Pointe venus light 17-29.70S 149-29.66W unlitNav aids · 43.7 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

28 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 03:26Z; 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.