Gunnery exercises 2100Z to 0700Z commencing daily 30 jul and 06 thru 08 aug in area bound by 52-30-00N…
North Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 2724/18
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2018-08-09 08:00Z
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 XIII 63/18 260915Z JUL 18.. Issued 2018-07-26 10:19Z. 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
- North Pacific Ocean. 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 North Pacific Ocean →
- issued
- 2018-07-26 10:19Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2018-08-09 08:00Z
- authority
- NAVAREA XIII 63/18 260915Z JUL 18.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XIII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Pacific Ocean
- position
- 52.708, 159.929
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
NORTH PACIFIC. KAMCHATKA. DNC 24. 1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 2100Z TO 0700Z COMMENCING DAILY 30 JUL AND 06 THRU 08 AUG IN AREA BOUND BY 52-30-00N 159-44-30E, 52-55-00N 159-44-30E, 52-55-00N 160-07-00E, 52-30-00N 160-07-00E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 090800Z AUG 18.
Reading this warning
- DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
- A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
- Gunnery and live firing
- Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
- 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
64 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 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 in progress until 181400Z apr in area bound by 52-54.0N 160-28.5E, 53-00.0N 161-06.6E,…2022-04-14
- Gunnery exercises 221400Z to 261400Z jul in area bound by 52-30.0N 159-17.0E, 52-45.0N 159-17.0E, 52-45.0N…2019-07-17
- Gunnery exercises 2000Z to 0900Z commencing daily 17 thru 21 apr in area bound by 52-30-00N 159-44-30E,…2017-04-14
- Hazardous operations2015-04-08
- Hazardous operations2015-04-02
- Hazardous operations2015-03-29
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
- 165 km sse of vilyuchinsk, russiaQuakes · 61.7 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
9 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 19:51Z; 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.