Exercises

Hazardous operations are scheduled near Guam in the North Pacific from 2200Z to 0700Z daily on 28 and 29 September at 13-29.05N 144-40.05E; cancel at 300800Z September 26.

Philippine Sea · HYDROPAC 2748/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-09-23 14:45Z

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 2026-09-16 09:39Z. First collected 2026-09-23 15:02Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-24 13:02Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
Philippine Sea. The parsed report position is 13.484, 144.667. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Philippine Sea

issued
2026-09-16 09:39Z
status
Cancelled notice
self-cancels
2026-09-30 08:00Z
sea
Philippine Sea
position
13.484, 144.667
source
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-23 15:02Z

Original warning text

NORTH PACIFIC.
GUAM.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 2200Z TO 0700Z
   DAILY 28 AND 29 SEP IN 13-29.05N 144-40.05E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 300800Z SEP 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.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · military exercises

2009 within 180 nm since 2002 · 57 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

02
05
10
15
20
25
26

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

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D

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

17 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-24 13:02Z; 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.