Hazardous operations 22 thru 31 jan in area bound by 20-43.00N 059-31.00E, 20-27.00N 059-51.00E, 20-12.00N…
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 228/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-02-01 00:01Z
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 IX 29/23 191506Z JAN 23.. Issued 2023-01-19 15:31Z. 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
- Arabian Sea. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2023-01-19 15:31Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-02-01 00:01Z
- authority
- NAVAREA IX 29/23 191506Z JAN 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IX · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 19.537, 59.241
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
ARABIAN SEA. OMAN. DNC 10. 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 22 THRU 31 JAN IN AREA BOUND BY 20-43.00N 059-31.00E, 20-27.00N 059-51.00E, 20-12.00N 059-59.00E, 19-36.00N 059-59.00E, 18-26.00N 059-06.00E, 19-04.00N 058-14.56E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 010001Z FEB 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
9 within 180 nm since 2004 · 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.
- Hazardous operations 0400Z to 1000Z daily 06 and 07 jun in area bound by 19-57.60N 058-07.02E, 19-43.75N…2023-06-05
- Hazardous operations 0100Z to 1200Z and 1300Z to 2100Z daily 24 and 25 oct2022-10-21
- Hazardous operations 1200Z to 1800Z daily 16 thru 18 oct in area bound by 20-04.83N 058-43.95E, 20-18.37N…2022-10-13
- Hazardous operations: a. 20 thru 31 mar in area bound by 20-43.00N 059-31.00E, 20-27.00N 059-51.00E,…2022-03-16
- Hazardous operations 090200Z to 111800Z mar in area bound by 20-45.00N 059-30.00E, 20-00.00N 060-00.00E,…2008-03-05
- Hazardous operations 1300Z to 0200Z commencing daily 09 thru 12 feb: a. in area bound by 20-10.0N 059-10.0E,…2007-02-08
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
28 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 10:17Z; 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.