Hazardous operations
Red Sea · HYDROPAC 644/14
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2014-03-17 16:00Z
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 IX 57/14 060633Z MAR 14.. Issued 2014-03-06 09:48Z. 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
- Red 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.
- issued
- 2014-03-06 09:48Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2014-03-17 16:00Z
- authority
- NAVAREA IX 57/14 060633Z MAR 14.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IX · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Red Sea
- position
- 24.962, 36.741
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
RED SEA. SAUDI ARABIA. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS. 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 0300Z TO 1500Z DAILY 11, 12, 16 AND 17 MAR IN AREA BOUND BY 25-39.0N 036-01.0E, 25-50.0N 036-31.0E, 24-18.5N 037-31.0E, 24-10.0N 036-50.0E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 171600Z MAR 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.
- Area bound by
- Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
31 within 180 nm since 2002 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now
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.
- Hazardous operations 0700Z to 1300Z and 1400Z to 2000Z daily: a. 02, 04, 06 thru 09, 11, 13 thru 15, 18, 20…2023-02-03
- Hazardous operations 070100Z to 081600Z jun in area bound by 22-25N 037-27E, 22-01N 037-27E, 22-01N 037-00E,…2020-06-06
- Hazardous operations 10 may in area bound by 24-30.00N 035-46.45E, 23-54.30N 036-07.30E, 23-55.00N…2019-05-09
- Hazardous operations 190001Z to 272359Z sep in area bound by 26-43N 035-12E, 26-54N 035-28E, 27-37N 034-50E,…2018-09-18
- Hazardous operations2014-12-09
- Hazardous operations2014-09-03
Month of issue in the collected archive
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 08:51Z; 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.