Exercises

Gunnery exercises 131600Z to 140600Z jul in area within 15 miles of 59-50.00N 176-50.00W

Bering Sea · HYDROPAC 2284/23

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2023-07-14 07:00Z

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) · COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 120/23 120402Z JUL 23.. Issued 2023-07-12 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
Bering Sea. The parsed report position is 59.833, -176.833 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 Bering Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2023-07-13 16:00Z2023-07-14 06:00Z—14 h

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

issued
2023-07-12 08:50Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2023-07-14 07:00Z
authority
COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 120/23 120402Z JUL 23.
issued by
COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE
sea
Bering Sea
position
59.833, -176.833 · r 15.0 nm
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

BERING SEA.
DNC 25.
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 131600Z TO 140600Z JUL
   IN AREA WITHIN 15 MILES OF
   59-50.00N 176-50.00W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 140700Z JUL 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.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · military exercises

33 within 180 nm since 2002 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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23

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

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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

31 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-30 09:55Z; 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.