Ordnance

Bombing exercises: a. 270300Z to 271700Z jan in area between 06-16.5N 04-59.0N and 090-00.0E 093-04.5E

Laccadive Sea · HYDROPAC 298/11

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2011-01-30 21:00Z

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) · USS CARL VINSON 210911Z JAN 11.. Issued 2011-01-25 12:25Z. 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
Laccadive 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.

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Activity windows · 4 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2011-01-27 03:00Z2011-01-27 17:00Z—14 h
2011-01-28 04:00Z2011-01-28 18:00Z—14 h
2011-01-29 05:00Z2011-01-29 19:00Z—14 h
2011-01-30 06:00Z2011-01-30 20:00Z—14 h

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

issued
2011-01-25 12:25Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2011-01-30 21:00Z
authority
USS CARL VINSON 210911Z JAN 11.
issued by
USS CARL VINSON
sea
Laccadive Sea
position
5.827, 76.053
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

NORTHERN INDIAN OCEAN.
BAY OF BENGAL.
SOUTHERN ARABIAN SEA.
ORDNANCE.
1. BOMBING EXERCISES:
   A. 270300Z TO 271700Z JAN
      IN AREA BETWEEN
      06-16.5N 04-59.0N AND 090-00.0E 093-04.5E.
   B. 280400Z TO 281800Z JAN
      IN AREA BETWEEN
      05-58.5N 04-11.0N AND 084-20.0E 088-49.0E.
   C. 290500Z TO 291900Z JAN
      IN AREA BOUND BY
      06-06.5N 076-01.5E, 04-18.5N 080-55.5E,
      02-37.0N 080-18.0E, 04-24.0N 075-23.5E.
   D. 300600Z TO 302000Z JAN
      IN AREA BOUND BY
      10-12.0N 069-41.0E, 09-41.0N 072-41.0E,
      08-24.0N 072-30.0E, 08-56.0N 069-25.0E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 302100Z JAN.

Reading this warning

Unexploded ordnance
Bombs, shells, mines or torpedoes found on the seabed or washed up, and the operations to remove or destroy them.
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.
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.
Area bound by
Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Collected reports in this area · ordnance operations

3 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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11

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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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

0 ordnance operations listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 19:58Z; source collection times vary.

Ordnance

Ordnance disposal, underwater detonations and unexploded ordnance. All current ordnance operations →

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