Gunnery exercises 271700Z to 272200Z apr within 27000 yards of 59-31N 176-31W
Bering Sea · HYDROPAC 1176/14
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2014-04-27 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) · COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 71/14 241643Z APR 14.. Issued 2014-04-24 17:15Z. 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
- Bering Sea. The parsed report position is 59.517, -176.517 with a 13.3 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-27 17:00Z | 2014-04-27 22:00Z | — | 5 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2014-04-24 17:15Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2014-04-27 23:00Z
- authority
- COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 71/14 241643Z APR 14.
- issued by
- COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE
- sea
- Bering Sea
- position
- 59.517, -176.517 · r 13.3 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
BERING SEA. GUNNERY. 1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 271700Z TO 272200Z APR WITHIN 27000 YARDS OF 59-31N 176-31W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 272300Z APR 14.
Reading this warning
- 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
30 within 180 nm since 2002 · 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.
- Gunnery exercises 131600Z to 140600Z jul in area within 15 miles of 59-50.00N 176-50.00W2023-07-12
- Gunnery exercises 052100Z to 060400Z jul in area within 20 miles of 59-07N 175-15W2018-07-05
- Gunnery exercises 151600Z to 152359Z aug in area within 11 miles of 59-50N 175-20W2017-08-15
- Gunnery and pyrotechnic operations 151600Z to 152359Z aug in area within 12.5 miles of 59-50N 177-50W2017-08-14
- Gunnery exercises 111600Z to 112100Z aug within five miles of 59-30N 176-30W2016-08-10
- Gunnery exercises: a. 261600Z to 270530Z sep, alternate 281600Z to 290530Z sep within 30000 yards of 55-28N…2014-09-25
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 2026-10-03 19:14Z; 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.