Exercises

Gunnery exercises 031400Z to 151400Z sep in area bound by 43-44.23N 145-33.48E, 43-45.55N 145-34.11E,…

Sea of Okhotsk · HYDROPAC 3232/18

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2018-09-15 15:00Z

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) · VLADIVOSTOK 217/18 030902Z SEP 18.. Issued 2018-09-03 09:15Z. 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.

Current notices and reporting history in the Sea of Okhotsk →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2018-09-03 14:00Z2018-09-15 14:00Z—288 h

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

issued
2018-09-03 09:15Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2018-09-15 15:00Z
authority
VLADIVOSTOK 217/18 030902Z SEP 18.
issued by
VLADIVOSTOK
sea
Sea of Okhotsk
position
43.750, 145.630
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

SEA OF OKHOTSK.
KURIL ISLANDS.
DNC 24.
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 031400Z TO 151400Z SEP
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   43-44.23N 145-33.48E, 43-45.55N 145-34.11E,
   43-46.06N 145-41.45E, 43-44.29N 145-41.47E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 151500Z SEP 18.

Reading this warning

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.
Gunnery and live firing
Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
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

33 within 180 nm since 2010 · 2 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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

Worldwide in the collected sources

28 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 05:51Z; 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.