Exercises

Hazardous operations 0300Z to 1100Z daily 01 thru 04 oct: a. in area bound by 47-36N 151-21E, 47-54N…

Sea of Okhotsk · HYDROPAC 1641/05

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2005-10-04 12:00Z

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 XIII 50/05 01 OCT 05.. Issued 2005-10-01 22:47Z. 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
Sea of Okhotsk. 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 Sea of Okhotsk →

Activity windows · 4 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2005-10-01 03:00Z2005-10-01 11:00Z—8 h
2005-10-02 03:00Z2005-10-02 11:00Z—8 h
2005-10-03 03:00Z2005-10-03 11:00Z—8 h
2005-10-04 03:00Z2005-10-04 11:00Z—8 h

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

issued
2005-10-01 22:47Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2005-10-04 12:00Z
authority
NAVAREA XIII 50/05 01 OCT 05.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XIII · named as the source of this relay
sea
Sea of Okhotsk
position
57.177, 140.550
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 0300Z TO 1100Z DAILY
   01 THRU 04 OCT:
   A. IN AREA BOUND BY
      47-36N 151-21E, 47-54N 151-06E,
      48-06N 151-40E, 47-52N 151-58E.
   B. WITHIN 27 MILES OF 52-49N 146-17E.
   C. WITHIN 27.5 MILES OF 57-09N 140-33E.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1578/05.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 041200Z OCT.

Reading this warning

Hazardous operations
NGA's heading for activities that make an area dangerous — most often rocket launches, space debris and weapons firings, and some open-ended danger areas.
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.
Within a radius of
A circular area — every position within a stated distance of a point.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · military exercises

13 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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00
05
10
11

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

28 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 13:50Z; 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.