Ordnance

Ordnance drop exercises 0001Z to 1100Z daily: a. 16 jan within 18 miles of 32-30N 126-10E

Eastern China Sea · HYDROPAC 76/02

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2002-01-16 14:53Z

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) · NRL WASH D.C. 192008Z NOV 01; GOMA; AUSSAR 269/02 POR EGC #62022 121017Z JAN 02. Issued 2002-01-12 11:40Z. 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
Eastern China Sea. The parsed report position is 29.826, 125.478. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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issued
2002-01-12 11:40Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2002-01-21 12:00Z
authority
NRL WASH D.C. 192008Z NOV 01; GOMA; AUSSAR 269/02 POR EGC #62022 121017Z JAN 02
issued by
NRL WASH D.C
sea
Eastern China Sea
position
29.826, 125.478
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. ORDNANCE DROP EXERCISES 0001Z TO 1100Z DAILY:
   A. 16 JAN WITHIN 18 MILES OF 32-30N 126-10E.
   B. 18 JAN WITHIN 18 MILES OF 27-00N 124-45E.
   C. 21 JAN WITHIN 18 MILES OF
      27-30N 123-30E AND 29-57N 126-00E.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 56/02(61,74), 73/02 REFERS.
3. CANCEL HYDROPAC 66/02(74), SEARCH SUSPENDED.
4. CANCEL THIS MSG 211200Z JAN.

Reading this warning

Unexploded ordnance
Bombs, shells, mines or torpedoes found on the seabed or washed up, and the operations to remove or destroy them.
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.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · ordnance operations

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

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03

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

0 ordnance operations listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 21:39Z; source collection times vary.

Ordnance

Ordnance disposal, underwater detonations and unexploded ordnance. All current ordnance operations →

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.