Exercises

Hazardous operations: a. 130130Z to 130330Z jan in area: 1. between 17-45N 18-05N and 072-07E 072-30E

Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 59/09

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2009-01-08 15:19Z

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 13/09 061002Z JAN 09.. Issued 2009-01-07 02:11Z. 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. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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Activity windows · 2 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2009-01-13 01:30Z2009-01-13 03:30Z—2 h
2009-01-13 12:30Z2009-01-13 15:30Z—3 h

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

issued
2009-01-07 02:11Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2009-01-13 16:30Z
authority
NAVAREA VIII 13/09 061002Z JAN 09.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
sea
Arabian Sea
position
15.850, 72.872
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS:
   A. 130130Z TO 130330Z JAN IN AREA:
      1. BETWEEN 17-45N 18-05N AND 072-07E 072-30E.
      2. BOUND BY 16-42N 072-17E, 16-27N 072-45E, 
         15-32N 073-15E, 16-10N 072-05E.
   B. 131230Z TO 131530Z JAN IN AREA:
      1. BETWEEN 16-40N 17-55N AND 070-45E 072-20E.
      2. BOUND BY 13-45N 070-11E, 14-07N 069-25E, 
         14-18N 070-28E, 14-38N 069-52E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 131630Z JAN.

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.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · military exercises

689 within 180 nm since 1999 · 14 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 01:23Z; 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.