Exercises

Hazardous operations take place daily 0230Z to 0800Z from 28 to 30 September in the Eastern Indian Ocean off India, within a defined area.

Laccadive Sea · HYDROPAC 2783/26

What this record establishes

Listed in force

The latest collected record lists this warning as active. This is the status of the notice, not a live observation of conditions at the location.

Source and dates
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-09-25 11:29Z. First collected 2026-09-25 18:02Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-25 21:47Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
Laccadive 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.

Current notices and reporting history in the Laccadive Sea →

Activity windows · 3 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2026-09-28 02:30Z2026-09-28 08:00Z—5 h 30
2026-09-29 02:30Z2026-09-29 08:00Z—5 h 30
2026-09-30 02:30Z2026-09-30 08:00Z—5 h 30

Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.

issued
2026-09-25 11:29Z
status
Listed in force
self-cancels
2026-09-30 09:00Z
sea
Laccadive Sea
position
10.583, 75.292
nearest port
Cochin · 67 nm
source
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-25 18:02Z

Original warning text

EASTERN INDIAN OCEAN.
INDIA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 0230Z TO 0800Z DAILY
   28 THRU 30 SEP IN AREA BOUND BY
   10-50.00N 075-00.00E, 10-50.00N 075-35.00E,
   10-20.00N 075-35.00E, 10-20.00N 075-00.00E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 300900Z 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.
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.

All warning terms →

Conditions at the position · now

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MET Norway · NOAA WaveWatch III · HYCOM · GEBCO 2020 · model data at the centroid, not an observation

Collected reports in this area · military exercises

1011 within 180 nm since 2000 · 16 in the last 12 months · 1 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

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

30 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-25 21:52Z; 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.