Exercises

Gunnery exercises 200500Z to 201400Z jan in area bound by 12-33.00S 045-11.00E, 12-35.00S 044-53.00E,…

Mozambique Channel · HYDROPAC 217/23

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2023-01-20 15:00Z

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 VII 24/23 181008Z JAN 23.. Issued 2023-01-18 10:37Z. 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: Mozambique Channel. 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 Mozambique Channel →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)	closes (UTC)	local	length
2023-01-20 05:00Z	2023-01-20 14:00Z	—	9 h

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

issued: 2023-01-18 10:37Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2023-01-20 15:00Z
authority: NAVAREA VII 24/23 181008Z JAN 23.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA VII · named as the source of this relay
sea: Mozambique Channel
position: -12.797, 45.055
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL.
MAYOTTE.
DNC 02.
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 200500Z TO 201400Z JAN
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   12-33.00S 045-11.00E, 12-35.00S 044-53.00E,
   12-57.00S 044-52.00E, 13-04.00S 045-15.00E,
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 201500Z JAN 23.

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.
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.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · military exercises

24 within 180 nm since 2006 · 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.

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

NAVAREA VII 267 of 2026 : (23 sep 26) 1. indian ocean - sw sector - offshore mayotte 2. chart san 1 3. rv…Surveys · 41.6 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

28 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 12:40Z; 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.