Gunnery exercises 302200Z aug to 060900Z sep in area bound by 45-00-23N 147-43-22E, 44-56-01N 147-50-09E,…
Sea of Okhotsk · HYDROPAC 2863/15
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2015-09-06 10:00Z
This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · VLAD 188/15 290908Z AUG 15.. Issued 2015-08-29 09:45Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Sea of Okhotsk. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
Current notices and reporting history in the Sea of Okhotsk →
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-30 22:00Z | 2015-09-06 09:00Z | — | 155 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2015-08-29 09:45Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2015-09-06 10:00Z
- authority
- VLAD 188/15 290908Z AUG 15.
- issued by
- VLAD
- sea
- Sea of Okhotsk
- position
- 44.944, 147.713
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC. KURIL ISLANDS. GUNNERY. DNC 24. 1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 302200Z AUG TO 060900Z SEP IN AREA BOUND BY 45-00-23N 147-43-22E, 44-56-01N 147-50-09E, 44-53-23N 147-39-28E, 44-56-38N 147-36-29E. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 2828/15. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 061000Z SEP 15.
Reading this warning
- Gunnery and live firing
- Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
- DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
- A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
- 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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROPAC
- The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
- 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
36 within 180 nm since 2010 · 2 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.
- Gunnery exercises 142000Z to 151200Z aug in area bound by 45-33.00N 143-20.00E, 46-04.00N 143-26.00E,…2026-08-11
- Gunnery exercises 2000Z to 1200Z daily 09 thru 14 aug in areas bound by: a. 46-41.00N 146-02.00E, 45-13.00N…2026-08-11
- Gunnery exercises 2300Z to 1000Z daily 04 oct thru 04 nov in area bound by 44-05.00N 146-56.00E, 44-05.00N…2023-09-29
- Hazardous operations 2200Z to 1000Z daily 18 thru 22 apr in areas bound by: a. 47-19.50N 143-36.20E,…2023-04-18
- Hazardous operations 2200Z to 1000Z daily 17 thru 21 apr in areas bound by: a. 46-05.00N 148-45.00E,…2023-04-16
- Hazardous operations 2200Z to 1000Z daily 17 thru 21 apr in areas bound by: a. 45-46.00N 147-55.00E,…2023-04-15
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
9 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 17:42Z; 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.