Exercises

Hazardous operations

Eastern South Pacific · Chile · HYDROPAC 2169/15

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2015-07-06 06:25Z

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 XV 173/15 270210Z JUN 15.. Issued 2015-06-29 07:31Z. 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 South Pacific · Chile. No usable coordinates were parsed; a location-based nearby search is unavailable. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Related notices and cancellation links

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2015-07-05 12:00Z2015-07-05 19:00Z—7 h

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

issued
2015-06-29 07:31Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2015-07-06 22:00Z
authority
NAVAREA XV 173/15 270210Z JUN 15.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XV · named as the source of this relay
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EASTERN SOUTH PACIFIC.
CHILE.
HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS.
DNC 07.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 1200Z TO 2100Z DAILY
   04 AND 06 JUL AND 051200Z TO 051900Z JUL
   IN AREAS BETWEEN:
   A. 36-37.0S 36-30.0S AND 073-15.0W 073-23.7W.
   B. 36-03.0S 36-10.0S AND 073-52.0W 073-43.0W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 062200Z JUL 15.

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.
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.
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.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

No parsed position is available for this comparison.

Worldwide in the collected sources

28 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 02:58Z; 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.