Hazardous operations take place near 36-28.65S 174-09.63E in Tasman Sea, New Zealand, from 170500Z to 171000Z August.
Tasman Sea · HYDROPAC 2313/26
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 22:09Z. 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
- Tasman Sea. The parsed report position is -36.477, 174.161 with a 3.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-17 05:00Z | 2026-08-17 10:00Z | — | 5 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 22:09Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-08-17 11:00Z
- sea
- Tasman Sea
- position
- -36.477, 174.161 · r 3.0 nm
- nearest port
- Auckland · 36 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
TASMAN SEA. NEW ZEALAND. 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 170500Z TO 171000Z AUG IN AREA WITHIN THREE MILES OF 36-28.65S 174-09.63E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 171100Z AUG 26.
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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
130 within 180 nm since 2003 · 5 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 2000Z to 0400Z daily 06 thru 11 sep in area within three miles of 36-28.65S 174-09.63E2026-09-01
- Hazardous operations 1900Z to 0400Z daily 19 apr thru 01 may in area within three miles of 36-28.65S…2026-04-15
- Hazardous operations 1900Z to 0500Z daily 12 thru 17 apr in area within three miles of 36-28.65S 174-09.63E2026-04-07
- Hazardous operations 071900Z to 100400Z dec in area within three miles of 36-28.65S 174-09.64E2025-12-03
- Hazardous operations 1900Z to 0400Z daily 24 thru 29 nov in area within three miles of 36-28.65S 174-09.64E2024-11-20
- Hazardous operations 2200Z to 0700Z daily 07 thru 12 apr in area within three miles of 36-28.65S 174-09.63E2024-04-04
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
10 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 05:47Z; 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.