Exercises

Hazardous operations 0230Z to 1130Z daily 15 thru 21 mar within 25 miles of 14-01.0N 074-19.6E

Laccadive Sea · HYDROPAC 443/02

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2002-03-19 12:43Z

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 VIII 181/02. Issued 2002-03-11 17:55Z. 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 parsed report position is 14.017, 74.327 with a 25.0 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 Laccadive Sea →

Activity windows · 7 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2002-03-15 02:30Z2002-03-15 11:30Z—9 h
2002-03-16 02:30Z2002-03-16 11:30Z—9 h
2002-03-17 02:30Z2002-03-17 11:30Z—9 h
2002-03-18 02:30Z2002-03-18 11:30Z—9 h
2002-03-19 02:30Z2002-03-19 11:30Z—9 h
2002-03-20 02:30Z2002-03-20 11:30Z—9 h
2002-03-21 02:30Z2002-03-21 11:30Z—9 h

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

issued
2002-03-11 17:55Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2002-03-21 12:30Z
authority
NAVAREA VIII 181/02
NAVAREA
NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
sea
Laccadive Sea
position
14.017, 74.327 · r 25.0 nm
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 0230Z TO 1130Z DAILY 15 THRU 21 MAR
   WITHIN 25 MILES OF 14-01.0N 074-19.6E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 211230Z MAR.

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.
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.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · military exercises

513 within 180 nm since 1999 · 9 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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26

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

9 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 19:14Z; 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.