Hazardous operations
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 2942/11
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2011-10-25 08:30Z
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) · NAVAREA IX 420/11 170851Z OCT 11 - NAVAREA VIII 590/11 191001Z OCT11.. Issued 2011-10-19 11:30Z. 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
- Arabian Sea. The parsed report position is 25.383, 66.633 with a 22.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Two containers adrift in 18-51.2N 072-45.0E at 131030Z octcancelled by this notice
- issued
- 2011-10-19 11:30Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2011-10-25 08:30Z
- authority
- NAVAREA IX 420/11 170851Z OCT 11 - NAVAREA VIII 590/11 191001Z OCT11.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IX · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 25.383, 66.633 · r 22.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
ARABIAN SEA. PAKISTAN. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS. 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 0300Z TO 0730Z DAILY 24 AND 25 OCT WITHIN 22 MILES OF 25-23N 066-38E BETWEEN 210 DEGREES AND 260 DEGREES. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 2882/11. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 250830Z OCT.
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.
- Within a radius of
- A circular area — every position within a stated distance of a point.
- 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.
- 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
405 within 180 nm since 2004 · 4 in the last 12 months · 2 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 0300Z to 1200Z daily 25 and 26 sep in area bound by 25-12.00N 064-27.83E, 25-12.00N…2026-09-18
- Hazardous operations 0300Z to 1300Z daily 26 aug, 02, 09, 16, 23 and 30 sep in area bound by 24-50.26N…2026-08-25
- Hazardous operations 0300Z to 1500Z daily 20 and 21 apr in area bound by 25-13.00N 064-18.00E, 25-13.00N…2026-04-16
- Hazardous operations 060300Z to 061900Z in areas bound by: a. 24-19.00N 066-58.00E, 24-24.30N 066-42.00E,…2025-12-04
- Hazardous operations 0300Z to 1300Z daily 13 thru 15 feb in area bound by 24-54.00N 066-15.00E, 25-20.00N…2025-02-10
- Hazardous operations 100300Z to 111200Z feb in area bound by 24-47.00N 065-30.00E, 24-47.00N 066-50.00E,…2025-02-07
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
- Hazardous operations 0300Z to 1300Z daily 26 aug, 02, 09, 16, 23 and 30 sep in area bound by 24-50.26N…Exercises · 38.9 nm
- Wreck buoy 24-46.45N 066-57.09E missingWrecks · 40.5 nm
- Fairway buoy 24-43.14N 066-55.86E missingNav aids · 43 nm
- Dangerous wreck in vicinity 23-51.80N 067-20.90EWrecks · 99.3 nm
- Ormara lighthouse 25-11.10N 064-41.10E unlitNav aids · 106.4 nm
- Hazardous operations 0300Z to 1200Z daily 25 and 26 sep in area bound by 25-12.00N 064-27.83E, 25-12.00N…Exercises · 109.3 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
28 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 11:49Z; 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.