Gunnery exercises 11 and 12 may in area bound by 14-15.00N 120-10.00E, 14-21.00N 120-10.00E, 14-21.00N…
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 1573/24
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2024-05-13 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) · NAVAREA XI 225/24 101511Z MAY 24.. Issued 2024-05-10 15:42Z. 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 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 China Sea →
- issued
- 2024-05-10 15:42Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2024-05-13 00:01Z
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 225/24 101511Z MAY 24.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 14.300, 120.217
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTH CHINA SEA. PHILIPPINES. DNC 11. 1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 11 AND 12 MAY IN AREA BOUND BY 14-15.00N 120-10.00E, 14-21.00N 120-10.00E, 14-21.00N 120-16.00E, 14-15.00N 120-16.00E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 130001Z MAY 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
67 within 180 nm since 2002 · 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.
- Gunnery exercises 08 thru 18 dec in area bound by 14-42.63N 120-41.55E, 14-41.53N 120-36.54E, 14-36.73N…2025-12-03
- Gunnery exercises 09 thru 18 jun in area bound by 14-21.16N 120-29.28E, 14-16.96N 120-29.48E, 14-16.47N…2025-06-05
- Gunnery exercises in progress until 21 feb in area bound by 14-42.48N 120-36.48E, 14-43.64N 120-41.48E,…2025-01-28
- Gunnery exercises 25 thru 29 nov in area bound by 16-26.33N 120-09.32E, 16-26.02N 120-12.49E, 16-23.13N…2024-11-21
- Gunnery exercises 21 thru 27 nov in area bound by 14-20.74N 119-59.02E, 14-21.00N 120-09.20E, 14-11.00N…2024-11-19
- Gunnery exercises 25 sep thru 10 oct in areas bound by: a. 14-15.00N 120-10.00E, 14-21.00N 120-10.00E,…2024-09-23
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
- Cape santiago light 13-46.32N 120-39.18E unlitNav aids · 40.6 nm
- Cape santiago light, 13-46.32N 120-39.18E, F2614, extingushedNav aids · 40.6 nm
- Manira NAVTEX station, j, 14-30.3N 121-03.9E, inoperativeNav aids · 50.8 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
17 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-25 00:45Z; 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.