Exercises

Gunnery exercises 2300Z to 1000Z commencing daily 08 thru 12 may in area bound by 37-44-55N 124-05-10E,…

Yellow Sea · HYDROPAC 1293/16

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2016-05-09 11:22Z

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 XI 272/16 041157Z MAY 16.. Issued 2016-05-04 13:13Z. 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
Yellow 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.

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Activity windows · 5 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2016-05-08 23:00Z2016-05-09 10:00Z—11 h
2016-05-09 23:00Z2016-05-10 10:00Z—11 h
2016-05-10 23:00Z2016-05-11 10:00Z—11 h
2016-05-11 23:00Z2016-05-12 10:00Z—11 h
2016-05-12 23:00Z2016-05-13 10:00Z—11 h

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

issued
2016-05-04 13:13Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2016-05-13 11:00Z
authority
NAVAREA XI 272/16 041157Z MAY 16.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea
Yellow Sea
position
37.626, 124.349
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

YELLOW SEA.
GUNNERY.
DNC 23.
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 2300Z TO 1000Z COMMENCING
   DAILY 08 THRU 12 MAY IN AREA BOUND BY
   37-44-55N 124-05-10E, 37-44-55N 124-36-40E,
   37-30-10N 124-36-40E, 37-30-14N 124-05-10E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 131100Z MAY 16.

Reading this warning

Gunnery and live firing
Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
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.
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.
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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Collected reports in this area · military exercises

1356 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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

17 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-25 04:11Z; 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.