Hazardous operations are underway in the Arabian Sea near India from August 20 to 24 in two specified areas.
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 2377/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-08-19 18:30Z
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 2026-08-19 11:17Z. First collected 2026-08-19 19:02Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-24 19:47Z. 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.
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-20 02:30Z | 2026-08-24 02:30Z | — | 96 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2026-08-19 11:17Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-08-24 03:30Z
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 14.961, 73.180
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-19 19:02Z
Original warning text
ARABIAN SEA.
INDIA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 200230Z TO 240230Z
AUG IN AREAS BOUND BY:
A. 14-36.07N 073-32.58E, 13-53.09N 073-43.00E,
13-49.01N 073-15.00E, 14-30.00N 073-04.01E.
B. 14-39.22N 073-32.29E, 15-20.31N 073-20.05E,
15-16.07N 072-50.00E, 14-33.23N 073-01.17E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 240330Z 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.
- 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
645 within 180 nm since 1999 · 9 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 290930Z to 300330Z sep in area bound by 16-44.00N 070-41.00E, 16-54.00N 070-41.00E,…2026-09-28
- Hazardous operations 170230 thru 260730Z sep in area bound by 15-53.00N 072-20.00E, 16-02.00N 072-50.00E,…2026-09-12
- Hazardous operations 091230Z to 091530Z sep in area bound by 14-35.00N 073-10.50E, 14-31.00N 073-05.03E,…2026-09-08
- Hazardous operations in progress until 070800Z sep in areas bound by: a. 14-36.07N 073-32.58E, 13-53.09N…2026-08-28
- Hazardous operations 240600Z to 300800Z aug in areas bound by: a. 14-36.07N 073-32.58E, 13-53.09N…2026-08-24
- Hazardous operations 250030Z to 261630Z aug in area bound by 15-10.00N 073-26.00E, 15-15.00N 073-55.00E,…2026-08-21
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
- F/V shri balajaneya sank in 13-36.00N 074-36.50EWrecks · 116.5 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
28 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 06:00Z; 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.