Hazardous operations
Eastern South Pacific · Chile · HYDROPAC 2232/15
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2015-07-07 09:40Z
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 179/15 040210Z JUL 15.. Issued 2015-07-05 08:35Z. 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 · 5 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-06 12:00Z | 2015-07-06 21:00Z | — | 9 h |
| 2015-07-07 12:00Z | 2015-07-07 21:00Z | — | 9 h |
| 2015-07-08 12:00Z | 2015-07-08 21:00Z | — | 9 h |
| 2015-07-09 12:00Z | 2015-07-09 21:00Z | — | 9 h |
| 2015-07-10 12:00Z | 2015-07-10 21:00Z | — | 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
- 2015-07-05 08:35Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2015-07-10 22:00Z
- authority
- NAVAREA XV 179/15 040210Z JUL 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 06 THRU 10 JUL IN AREA BETWEEN 20-00S 20-10S AND 070-50W 071-00W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 102200Z 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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 06:35Z; 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.