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) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-28 02:30Z | 2026-09-28 08:00Z | — | 5 h 30 |
| 2026-09-29 02:30Z | 2026-09-29 08:00Z | — | 5 h 30 |
| 2026-09-30 02:30Z | 2026-09-30 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.
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
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.
- Hazardous operations 241330Z to 241730Z sep in area bound by 09-35.00N 075-11.00E, 09-35.00N 075-27.00E,…2026-09-23
- Hazardous operations 0230Z to 0800Z daily 23 thru 25 sep in area bound by 10-50.00N 075-00.00E, 10-50.00N…2026-09-21
- Hazardous operations 0230Z to 0800Z daily 16 thru 18 sep in area bound by 10-50.00N 075-00.00E, 10-50.00N…2026-09-11
- Hazardous operations 110130Z to 110430Z sep in area bound by 10-33.32N 072-38.05E, 10-32.54N 072-38.72E,…2026-09-08
- Hazardous operations 0230Z to 0800Z daily 09 thru 11 sep 26 in area bound by 10-20.00N 075-00.00E, 10-20.00N…2026-09-05
- Hazardous operations 0900Z to 1200Z and 1230Z to 1430Z daily 04, 11, 18, 25 sep and 0900Z to 1200Z daily 07,…2026-09-04
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
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.