Ordnance

Underwater ordnance detonations 132200Z to 140300Z oct vicinity: a. 29-48N 128-47E

Eastern China Sea · HYDROPAC 1627/01

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2001-10-11 14:30Z

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) · USS PATRIOT 281700Z SEP 01; GIH. Issued 2001-10-09 14:03Z. 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
Eastern China Sea. The parsed report position is 30.150, 129.133. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Eastern China Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2001-10-13 22:00Z2001-10-14 03:00Z—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
2001-10-09 14:03Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2001-10-14 04:00Z
authority
USS PATRIOT 281700Z SEP 01; GIH
issued by
USS PATRIOT
sea
Eastern China Sea
position
30.150, 129.133
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. UNDERWATER ORDNANCE DETONATIONS 132200Z TO 140300Z OCT
   VICINITY:
   A. 29-48N 128-47E.
   B. 30-30N 129-29E.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1622/01.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 140400Z OCT.

Reading this warning

Unexploded ordnance
Bombs, shells, mines or torpedoes found on the seabed or washed up, and the operations to remove or destroy them.
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.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · ordnance operations

6 within 180 nm since 2001 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

01
02

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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A
M
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D

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

0 ordnance operations listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-30 18:48Z; source collection times vary.

Ordnance

Ordnance disposal, underwater detonations and unexploded ordnance. All current ordnance operations →

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.