Underwater ordnance detonations 150400Z to 151000Z may within 30 miles of 04-44S 111-20E
Java Sea · HYDROPAC 902/02
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2002-05-15 11:00Z
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) · TACRON ELEVEN DET ONE 141430Z MAY 02. Issued 2002-05-14 17:55Z. 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
- Java Sea. The parsed report position is -4.733, 111.333 with a 30.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-05-15 04:00Z | 2002-05-15 10:00Z | — | 6 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2002-05-14 17:55Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2002-05-15 11:00Z
- authority
- TACRON ELEVEN DET ONE 141430Z MAY 02
- issued by
- TACRON ELEVEN DET ONE
- sea
- Java Sea
- position
- -4.733, 111.333 · r 30.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. UNDERWATER ORDNANCE DETONATIONS 150400Z TO 151000Z MAY WITHIN 30 MILES OF 04-44S 111-20E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 151100Z MAY.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · ordnance operations
1 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.
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
0 ordnance operations listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 23:54Z; 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.