Exercises

Gunnery exercises 070001Z to 131000Z dec in areas: a. bound by 20-35-28N 125-50-12E, 22-03-20N 128-24-30E,…

Philippine Sea · HYDROPAC 3633/14

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2014-12-13 11:00Z

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) · NAVAREA XI 930/14 040920Z DEC 14.. Issued 2014-12-04 10:48Z. 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
Philippine 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.

Current notices and reporting history in the Philippine Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2014-12-07 00:01Z2014-12-13 10:00Z—153 h 59

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

issued
2014-12-04 10:48Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2014-12-13 11:00Z
authority
NAVAREA XI 930/14 040920Z DEC 14.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea
Philippine Sea
position
20.296, 127.459
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC.
PHILIPPINE SEA.
GUNNERY.
DNC 12, DNC 23.
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 070001Z TO 131000Z DEC IN AREAS:
   A. BOUND BY
      20-35-28N 125-50-12E, 22-03-20N 128-24-30E,
      20-21-10N 129-29-30E, 18-22-35N 126-02-26E.
   B. BETWEEN
      19-40-45N 20-30-45N AND 131-17-35E 132-10-35E.
   C. BETWEEN
      18-15-00N 19-05-00N AND 128-51-00E 129-47-00E.
   D. BETWEEN
      17-10-00N 18-00-00N AND 126-52-30E 127-45-35E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 131100Z DEC 14.

Reading this warning

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

10 within 180 nm since 2003 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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18

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

10 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 05:44Z; 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.