Exercises

Gunnery exercises 271300Z to 271900Z mar in area between 27-20S 28-30S and 078-00W 077-40W

HYDROPAC 532/03

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2003-03-27 20:00Z

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 XV 32/03 242210Z MAR 03; NAVAREA VII 43/03 241944Z MAR 03. Issued 2003-03-25 00:05Z. 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
No named location parsed. 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

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2003-03-27 13:00Z2003-03-27 19:00Z—6 h

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

issued
2003-03-25 00:05Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2003-03-27 20:00Z
authority
NAVAREA XV 32/03 242210Z MAR 03; NAVAREA VII 43/03 241944Z MAR 03
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XV · 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

1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 271300Z TO 271900Z MAR IN
   AREA BETWEEN 27-20S 28-30S AND 078-00W 077-40W.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 483/03(61).
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 272000Z MAR.

Reading this warning

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.
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.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROPAC
The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

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Worldwide in the collected sources

28 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 10:36Z; 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.