Gunnery exercises 232200Z to 232300Z may in area within five miles of 22-34.60S 166-16.10E
Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 1442/22
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2022-05-24 01:01Z
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 NOUMEA 6/22 231607Z MAY 22.. Issued 2022-05-23 16:20Z. 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
- Coral Sea. The parsed report position is -22.577, 166.268 with a 5.0 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
- Gunnery exercises 232200Z to 232300Z may in area within five miles of 22-34.60N 166-16.10Ecancelled by this notice
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-23 22:00Z | 2022-05-23 23:00Z | — | 1 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2022-05-23 16:20Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2022-05-24 01:01Z
- authority
- AVURNAV NOUMEA 6/22 231607Z MAY 22.
- issued by
- AVURNAV NOUMEA
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -22.577, 166.268 · r 5.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CORAL SEA. NEW CALEDONIA. DNC 06. 1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 232200Z TO 232300Z MAY IN AREA WITHIN FIVE MILES OF 22-34.60S 166-16.10E. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1438/22. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 240101Z MAY 22.
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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
236 within 180 nm since 2000 · 5 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 050100Z to 050900Z oct in area within ten miles of 22-07.00S 167-27.00E2026-10-01
- Gunnery exercises 132000Z to 160800Z sep in area within 20 miles of 23-00.00S 165-58.00E2026-09-11
- Gunnery exercises 071930Z to 090400Z sep in area within ten miles of 22-42.00S 166-00.00E2026-09-07
- Gunnery exercises 242000Z to 280800Z aug in areas within: a. 20 miles of 23-00.00S 165-58.00E2026-08-20
- Gunnery exercises 242000Z to 280800Z aug in areas within: a. 20 miles of 23-00.00S 165-05.00E2026-08-17
- Gunnery exercises 301300Z sep to 021300Z oct in area within ten miles of 22-07.00S 167-27.00E2024-09-26
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 2026-10-02 21:42Z; 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.