Gunnery exercises will take place in the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia, from August 14 20:00 UTC to August 15 12:00 UTC.
Sea of Okhotsk · HYDROPAC 2306/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-08-21 15:40Z
This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-08-11 09:57Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-23 13:02Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Sea of Okhotsk. 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 Sea of Okhotsk →
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-14 20:00Z | 2026-08-15 12:00Z | — | 16 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2026-08-11 09:57Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-08-15 13:00Z
- sea
- Sea of Okhotsk
- position
- 45.737, 144.114
- nearest port
- Korsakov · 78 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
SEA OF OKHOTSK. RUSSIA. 1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 142000Z TO 151200Z AUG IN AREA BOUND BY 45-33.00N 143-20.00E, 46-04.00N 143-26.00E, 45-57.00N 144-43.00E, 45-39.00N 145-00.00E, 45-25.00N 144-36.00E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 151300Z AUG 26.
Reading this warning
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
79 within 180 nm since 2004 · 2 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.
- Gunnery exercises 2000Z to 1200Z daily 09 thru 14 aug in areas bound by: a. 46-41.00N 146-02.00E, 45-13.00N…2026-08-11
- Hazardous operations 2200Z to 1300Z daily 19 jun thru 14 jul in area bound by 47-01.00N 141-20.80E,…2025-06-16
- Gunnery exercises 2200Z to 1300Z daily 25 may to 19 jun in area bound by 47-01.00N 141-20.80E, 46-57.50N…2025-06-04
- Gunnery exercises 2200Z to 1300Z daily 23 jan thu 20 feb in area bound by 47-01.00N 141-20.80E, 46-57.50N…2025-01-18
- Gunnery exercises 2200Z to 1200Z daily 30 sep thru 24 oct in area bound by 47-01.00N 141-20.80E, 46-57.50N…2024-09-25
- Gunnery exercises 2200Z to 1200Z daily 17 thru 29 apr in area bound by 47-01.00N 141-20.80E, 46-57.50N…2024-04-16
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
28 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 06:16Z; 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.