Exercises
Hazardous operations
South Pacific · HYDROPAC 2613/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-09-15 07:15Z
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 XIV 79/12 120530Z SEP 12.. Issued 2012-09-13 09:31Z. 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
- South Pacific. No usable coordinates were parsed; a location-based nearby search is unavailable. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Hazardous operationscancelled by this notice
- Seismic survey in progress until further notice by M/V voyager explorer towing four 5000 meter long cables…later cancellation notice
Activity windows · 2 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-09-14 05:15Z | 2012-09-14 06:15Z | — | 1 h |
| 2012-09-15 05:15Z | 2012-09-15 06:15Z | — | 1 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2012-09-13 09:31Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2012-09-15 07:15Z
- authority
- NAVAREA XIV 79/12 120530Z SEP 12.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XIV · named as the source of this relay
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTH PACIFIC.
HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS:
A. 140515Z TO 140615Z SEP IN AREA BETWEEN
47-00S 53-00S AND 109-00W 154-00W.
B. 150515Z TO 150615Z SEP IN AREA BETWEEN
47-00S 53-00S AND 116-00W 159-45W.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 2576/12.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 150715Z SEP 12.
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.
- 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.
Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm
No parsed position is available for this comparison.
Worldwide in the collected sources
28 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 01:22Z; 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.