Hazardous operations are scheduled in the Bay of Bengal off India from 29 September to 1 October, daily 0030 to 1030 UTC, in two defined areas.
Bay of Bengal · HYDROPAC 2800/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-09-28 16:45Z
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 2026-09-27 10:06Z. First collected 2026-09-28 19:02Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-29 03:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Bay of Bengal. 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 Bay of Bengal →
Activity windows · 3 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 00:30Z | 2026-09-29 10:30Z | — | 10 h |
| 2026-09-30 00:30Z | 2026-09-30 10:30Z | — | 10 h |
| 2026-10-01 00:30Z | 2026-10-01 10:30Z | — | 10 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2026-09-27 10:06Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-10-01 11:30Z
- sea
- Bay of Bengal
- position
- 17.899, 84.182
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-28 19:02Z
Original warning text
BAY OF BENGAL.
INDIA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 0030Z TO 1030Z DAILY
29 SEP THRU 01 OCT IN AREAS BOUND BY:
A. 17-58.90N 084-11.70E, 17-49.50N 083-59.60E,
17-49.50N 084-15.70E, 17-58.90N 084-27.30E.
B. 17-50.14N 083-42.05E, 17-53.04N 083-45.73E,
17-52.98N 083-50.49E, 17-49.79N 083-47.16E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 011130Z OCT 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.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
1077 within 180 nm since 2000 · 22 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.
- Hazardous operations 300430Z to 301130Z sep in area bound by 17-12.10N 083-36.20E, 17-12.80N 084-03.90E,…2026-09-28
- Hazardous operations in progress until 251829Z sep in area bound by 19-14.60N 084-53.70E, 19-07.39N…2026-09-23
- Hazardous operations 0700Z to 1200Z daily 22 thru 24 sep in area bound by 17-06.00N 082-21.60E, 17-06.00N…2026-09-18
- Hazardous operations 211330Z to 241530Z sep in area bound by 16-20.10N 084-29.30E, 16-01.80N 087-23.30E,…2026-09-18
- Hazardous operations 061831Z to 121829Z and 131831Z to 191829Z sep in area bound by 19-14.60N 084-53.70E,…2026-09-03
- Hazardous operations 020230Z to 021130Z sep in area bound by 17-46.00N 084-12.00E, 17-14.00N 084-12.00E,…2026-09-01
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
31 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-29 03:17Z; 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.