Gunnery exercises 012100Z to 020001Z dec in area within ten miles of 22-42.00N 166-00.00E
North Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 3413/22
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2022-12-02 01:00Z
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) · AVURNAV NOUMEA 16/22 301333Z NOV 22.. Issued 2022-11-30 15:01Z. 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
- North Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is 22.700, 166.000 with a 10.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Current notices and reporting history in the North Pacific Ocean →
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-12-01 21:00Z | 2022-12-02 00:01Z | — | 3 h 01 |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2022-11-30 15:01Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2022-12-02 01:00Z
- authority
- AVURNAV NOUMEA 16/22 301333Z NOV 22.
- issued by
- AVURNAV NOUMEA
- sea
- North Pacific Ocean
- position
- 22.700, 166.000 · r 10.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
NORTH PACIFIC. DNC 12. 1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 012100Z TO 020001Z DEC IN AREA WITHIN TEN MILES OF 22-42.00N 166-00.00E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 020100Z DEC 22.
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.
- 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.
- 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
5 within 180 nm since 2002 · 0 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.
- Hazardous operations 270130Z to 270330Z and 282200Z to 290001Z apr in area within ten miles of 22-41.99N…2023-04-25
- Gunnery exercises 232200Z to 232300Z may in area within five miles of 22-34.60N 166-16.10E2022-05-23
- Hazardous operations 100822Z to 100923Z sep, alternate 0806Z to 0923Z daily 11 thru 30 sep in areas bound…2002-09-06
- Hazardous operations 030234Z to 030350Z feb, alternate 0344Z to 0425Z daily 04 thru 28 feb in areas bound…2002-01-29
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
No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.
Worldwide in the collected sources
10 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 07:03Z; 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.