Gunnery exercises 2300Z to 1000Z commencing daily 11 and 12 aug within 15 miles of 22-44-54N 119-35-29E
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 1413/09
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2009-08-13 11:00Z
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 XI 491/09 07 AUG 09.. Issued 2009-08-09 06:51Z. 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 China Sea. The parsed report position is 22.748, 119.591 with a 15.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
Current notices and reporting history in the South China Sea →
- issued
- 2009-08-09 06:51Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2009-08-13 11:00Z
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 491/09 07 AUG 09.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 22.748, 119.591 · r 15.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 2300Z TO 1000Z COMMENCING DAILY 11 AND 12 AUG WITHIN 15 MILES OF 22-44-54N 119-35-29E. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1404/09(GEN), OPERATIONS SUSPENDED. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 131100Z AUG.
Reading this warning
- Gunnery and live firing
- Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
- Within a radius of
- A circular area — every position within a stated distance of a point.
- 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.
- HYDROPAC
- The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf 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.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
802 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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 0100Z to 0230Z daily 12 and 13 jan in area bound by 24-24.00N 122-20.00E, 24-24.00N…2023-01-07
- Hazardous operations 0330Z to 1000Z daily 09 thru 15 dec in areas bound by: a. 23-38.00N 123-22.00E,…2022-12-06
- Hazardous operations in progress until 080200Z aug in area bound by 23-13.00N 122-30.00E, 23-40.00N…2022-08-04
- Gunnery exercise 040400Z to 070400Z aug in area bound by 21-14.00N 121-33.00E, 21-33.00N 121-18.00E,…2022-08-02
- Gunnery exercises 1900Z to 0300Z daily 28, 29 jun, 05 thru 07, 11 thru 14, 19, 20 and 25 jul, and 0100Z to…2022-06-24
- Hazardous operations in progress until 31 dec in areas bound by: a. 24-11-56N 119-45-36E, 24-11-34N…2021-03-25
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
28 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 06:37Z; 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.