Exercises

Hazardous operations

Arabian Sea · Pakistan · HYDROPAC 3566/12

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2012-12-17 12:42Z

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 364/12 141433Z DEC 12.. Issued 2012-12-14 14:52Z. 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 · Pakistan. No usable coordinates were parsed; a location-based nearby search is unavailable. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Related notices and cancellation links

issued
2012-12-14 14:52Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2012-12-20 14:00Z
authority
NAVAREA IX 364/12 141433Z DEC 12.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA IX · named as the source of this relay
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 0400Z TO 1300Z DAILY
   19 AND 20 DEC IN AREA BETWEEN
   24-10N 21-45N AND 066-20E 063-25E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 201400Z DEC 12.

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.
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.
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.

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

No parsed position is available for this comparison.

Worldwide in the collected sources

17 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-25 00:53Z; 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.