Emergency ordnance jettison area established 060900Z to 130900Z feb within 15 miles of 25-22N 130-00E
Philippine Sea · HYDROPAC 212/03
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2003-02-13 10:00Z
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) · COMSEVENTHFLT 050815Z FEB 03. Issued 2003-02-05 08:50Z. 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
- Philippine Sea. The parsed report position is 25.367, 130.000 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.
Current notices and reporting history in the Philippine Sea →
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-02-06 09:00Z | 2003-02-13 09:00Z | — | 168 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2003-02-05 08:50Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2003-02-13 10:00Z
- authority
- COMSEVENTHFLT 050815Z FEB 03
- issued by
- COMSEVENTHFLT
- sea
- Philippine Sea
- position
- 25.367, 130.000 · 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. EMERGENCY ORDNANCE JETTISON AREA ESTABLISHED 060900Z TO 130900Z FEB WITHIN 15 MILES OF 25-22N 130-00E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 131000Z FEB.
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.
- 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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · ordnance operations
23 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.
- Torpedo firing exercises 27 jan thru 01 feb during daylight hours within 12 miles of 26-33N 128-53E2012-01-22
- Torpedo firing exercises 15 thru 18 jun during daylight hours within 12 miles of 26-09N 128-39E2011-06-10
- Bombing exercises in progress until 061500Z jan in area bound by 25-23N 132-18E, 23-37N 134-29E, 22-40N…2011-01-06
- Underwater ordnance detonations 2100Z to 0900Z commencing daily 31 jul thru 04 aug in areas bound by: a.…2010-08-02
- Underwater ordnance detonations 2100Z to 0900Z commencing daily 31 jul thru 04 aug in areas bound by: a.…2010-08-02
- Underwater ordnance detonations 2100Z to 0900Z commencing daily 31 jul thru 04 aug in areas bound by: a.…2010-07-28
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
0 ordnance operations listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 03:24Z; 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.