Exercises

Hazardous operations 0130Z to 1030Z daily 26 and 27 dec within 70 miles of 15-50.5N 080-29.5E

Bay of Bengal · HYDROPAC 2395/02

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2002-12-27 11:30Z

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 VIII 701/02 201004Z DEC 02; NAVAREA VIII 698/02 201001Z DEC 02. Issued 2002-12-20 15:29Z. 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
Bay of Bengal. The parsed report position is 15.842, 80.492 with a 70.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Related notices and cancellation links

Current notices and reporting history in the Bay of Bengal →

issued
2002-12-20 15:29Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2002-12-27 11:30Z
authority
NAVAREA VIII 701/02 201004Z DEC 02; NAVAREA VIII 698/02 201001Z DEC 02
NAVAREA
NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
sea
Bay of Bengal
position
15.842, 80.492 · r 70.0 nm
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 0130Z TO 1030Z DAILY 26 AND 27 DEC
   WITHIN 70 MILES OF 15-50.5N 080-29.5E.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 2337/02(61).
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 271130Z DEC.

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.
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.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROPAC
The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · military exercises

437 within 180 nm since 1999 · 4 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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

Worldwide in the collected sources

9 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 20:18Z; 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.