Gunnery exercises 04 thru 08 mar in area bound by 10-25.50N 124-12.50E, 10-30.50N 124-12.50E, 10-30.50N…
Philippine Sea · HYDROPAC 689/24
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2024-03-09 00:01Z
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 XI 91/24 290007Z FEB 24.. Issued 2024-02-29 00:20Z. 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
- Philippine 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.
Related notices and cancellation links
Current notices and reporting history in the Philippine Sea →
- issued
- 2024-02-29 00:20Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2024-03-09 00:01Z
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 91/24 290007Z FEB 24.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Philippine Sea
- position
- 10.467, 124.250
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CAMOTES SEA. PHILIPPINES. DNC 11. 1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 04 THRU 08 MAR IN AREA BOUND BY 10-25.50N 124-12.50E, 10-30.50N 124-12.50E, 10-30.50N 124-17.50E, 10-25.50N 124-17.50E. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 685/24. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 090001Z MAR 24.
Reading this warning
- 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.
- Gunnery and live firing
- Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
- 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.
- 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
23 within 180 nm since 2004 · 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 15 thru 30 apr in area bound by 10-13.34N 123-49.94E, 10-12.32N 123-49.90E, 10-12.35N…2024-04-12
- Hazardous operations 27 thru 29 mar in area bound by 10-32.00N 124-15.00E, 10-32.00N 124-25.00E, 10-22.66N…2024-03-26
- Gunnery exercises in progress until 27 mar in area bound by 10-21.70N 122-17.90E, 10-24.20N 122-17.90E,…2024-03-25
- Gunnery exercises in progress until 14 mar in area bound by 12-57.25N 122-48.15E, 12-52.56N 122-54.85E,…2024-03-12
- Gunnery exercises 04 thru 08 mar in area bound by 10-25.00N 124-12.50E, 10-30.50N 124-12.50E, 10-30.50N…2024-02-28
- Gunnery exercises 23 thru 28 feb in area bound by 09-15.99N 125-12.83E, 09-08.93N 125-12.88E, 09-08.99N…2024-02-20
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
- Apo island light, 09-04.98N 123-16.22E, F2344, extingushedNav aids · 101.3 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
30 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-30 20:47Z; 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.