Exercises

Hazardous operations DNC 07

South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 68/16

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2016-01-14 17:00Z

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 1/16 070200Z JAN 16 - NAVAREA IX 8/16 090645Z JAN 16.. Issued 2016-01-09 10:20Z. 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
South Pacific Ocean. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Related notices and cancellation links

Current notices and reporting history in the South Pacific Ocean →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2016-01-14 13:00Z2016-01-14 16:00Z—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
2016-01-09 10:20Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2016-01-14 17:00Z
authority
NAVAREA XV 1/16 070200Z JAN 16 - NAVAREA IX 8/16 090645Z JAN 16.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XV · named as the source of this relay
sea
South Pacific Ocean
position
-19.872, -70.281
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EASTERN SOUTH PACIFIC.
CHILE.
HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS
DNC 07.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 141300Z TO 141600Z JAN
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   19-45-27S 070-22-00W,
   19-52-30S 070-06-39W,
   19-59-00S 070-22-00W.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 3/16(62), OPERATIONS COMPLETED.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 141700Z JAN 16.

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.
DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
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.
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.
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

140 within 180 nm since 2002 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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24

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

17 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-25 00:13Z; 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.