Exercises

Hazardous operations

Bay of Bengal · HYDROPAC 538/14

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2014-02-27 04:00Z

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 VIII 107/14 241002Z FEB 14 - NAVAREA VII 91/14 240756Z FEB 14.. Issued 2014-02-24 13:55Z. 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
Bay of Bengal. The parsed report position is 17.700, 83.300 with a 15.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Related notices and cancellation links

Current notices and reporting history in the Bay of Bengal →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2014-02-27 00:01Z2014-02-27 03:00Z—2 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
2014-02-24 13:55Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2014-02-27 04:00Z
authority
NAVAREA VIII 107/14 241002Z FEB 14 - NAVAREA VII 91/14 240756Z FEB 14.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
sea
Bay of Bengal
position
17.700, 83.300 · r 15.0 nm
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

BAY OF BENGAL.
INDIA-EAST COAST.
HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 270001Z TO 270300Z FEB
   WITHIN 15 MILES OF 17-42N 083-18E
   BETWEEN 070 DEGREES AND 130 DEGREES.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 3849/13(61).
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 270400Z FEB 14.

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.
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.
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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · military exercises

1057 within 180 nm since 2000 · 24 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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

28 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 09:44Z; 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.