Hazardous operations are scheduled in the Andaman Sea off India on 29 and 30 September within a defined area.
Bay of Bengal · HYDROPAC 2806/26
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 2026-09-28 10:14Z. 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 04:30Z | 2026-09-29 06:30Z | — | 2 h |
| 2026-09-29 08:30Z | 2026-09-29 10:30Z | — | 2 h |
| 2026-09-30 03:30Z | 2026-09-30 11:00Z | — | 7 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
- 2026-09-28 10:14Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-09-30 12:00Z
- sea
- Bay of Bengal
- position
- 11.762, 92.377
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-28 19:02Z
Original warning text
ANDAMAN SEA. BAY OF BENGAL. INDIA. 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 290430Z TO 290630Z, 290830Z TO 291030Z AND 300330Z TO 301100Z SEP IN AREA BOUND BY 11-52.00N 092-19.00E, 11-48.00N 092-29.00E, 11-40.00N 092-27.00E, 11-43.00N 092-16.00E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 301200Z 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
406 within 180 nm since 2002 · 21 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 300830Z to 301030Z sep in area bound by 12-50.00N 093-40.00E, 12-50.00N 094-10.00E,…2026-09-28
- Hazardous operations 1130Z to 1430Z daily 28 thru 29 sep in area bound by 11-40.23N 092-45.75E, 11-40.77N…2026-09-25
- Hazardous operations 251000Z to 251230Z sep in area bound by 11-39.70N 092-46.30E, 11-40.60N 092-47.00E,…2026-09-23
- Hazardous operations 1030Z to 1130Z 24 sep in area bound by 11-40.80N 092-45.90E, 11-38.13N 093-00.70E,…2026-09-21
- Hazardous operations 0130Z to 0330Z, 0430Z to 0600Z and 0830Z to 0930Z daily 15 thru 18 sep in area bound by…2026-09-11
- Hazardous operations 0830Z to 1030Z 16 and 18 sep in area bound by 13-00.00N 093-40.00E, 13-00.00N…2026-09-11
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
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.