Exercises

Hazardous operations occur in the Andaman Sea off India on 30 September from 0830 to 1030 UTC, bounded by 12-50N to 13-00N and 093-40E to 094-10E.

Andaman or Burma Sea · HYDROPAC 2808/26

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 10:50Z. First collected 2026-09-28 19:02Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-29 03:02Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
Andaman or Burma 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 Andaman or Burma Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2026-09-30 08:30Z2026-09-30 10:30Z—2 h

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

issued
2026-09-28 10:50Z
status
Cancelled notice
self-cancels
2026-09-30 11:30Z
sea
Andaman or Burma Sea
position
12.917, 93.917
source
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-28 19:02Z

Original warning text

ANDAMAN SEA.
INDIA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 300830Z TO 301030Z SEP
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   12-50.00N 093-40.00E, 12-50.00N 094-10.00E,
   13-00.00N 094-10.00E, 13-00.00N 093-40.00E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 301130Z 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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · military exercises

387 within 180 nm since 2002 · 21 in the last 12 months · 1 listed in force now

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26

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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M
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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

Worldwide in the collected sources

31 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-29 03:16Z; 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.