Hazardous operations occur in the Arabian Sea off India from 0330Z to 0830Z daily on 28 and 29 September within a bounded area.
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 2785/26
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 11:47Z. First collected 2026-09-25 18:02Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-25 21:32Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Arabian 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.
- issued
- 2026-09-25 11:47Z
- status
- Listed in force
- self-cancels
- 2026-09-29 09:30Z
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 21.417, 69.205
- nearest port
- Porbandar · 25 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-25 18:02Z
Original warning text
ARABIAN SEA. INDIA. 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 0330Z TO 0830Z DAILY 28 AND 29 SEP IN AREA BOUND BY 21-32.00N 068-56.00E, 21-32.00N 069-24.00E, 21-17.00N 069-24.00E, 21-17.00N 069-06.00E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 290930Z 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
569 within 180 nm since 2001 · 14 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 170430Z to 170730Z sep in area bound by 22-42.11N 068-55.34E, 22-40.00N 069-09.11E,…2026-09-15
- Hazardous operations 0330Z to 0830Z daily 14 and 15 sep in area bound by 21-32.00N 069-24.00E, 21-17.00N…2026-09-10
- Hazardous operations 100230Z to 220230Z sep in areas bound by: a. 21-24.00N 067-05.00E, 21-03.00N…2026-09-10
- Hazardous operations in progress until 070800Z sep in area bound by 20-34.37N 069-42.24E, 19-30.42N…2026-08-28
- Hazardous operations in progress until 070800Z sep in areas bound by: a. 21-24.00N 067-05.00E, 21-03.29N…2026-08-28
- Hazardous operations 240600Z to 300800Z aug in areas bound by: a. 21-24.00N 067-05.00E, 21-03.29N…2026-08-24
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
30 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-25 21:45Z; 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.