Exercises

Gunnery exercises 220100Z to 220400Z may in area between 52-30N 53-00N and 178-00W 179-00W

Bering Sea · Alaska · Gunnery · NAVAREA XII 156/16

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2016-05-22 05:00Z

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) · COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 79/16 210600Z MAY 16.. Issued 2016-05-21 07:20Z. 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
Bering Sea · Alaska · Gunnery. No usable coordinates were parsed; a location-based nearby search is unavailable. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Related notices and cancellation links

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2016-05-22 01:00Z2016-05-22 04:00Z—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
2016-05-21 07:20Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2016-05-22 05:00Z
authority
COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 79/16 210600Z MAY 16.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XII
issued by
COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

BERING SEA.
ALASKA.
GUNNERY.
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 220100Z TO 220400Z MAY
   IN AREA BETWEEN
   52-30N 53-00N AND 178-00W 179-00W.
2. CANCEL NAVAREA XII 153/16.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 220500Z MAY 16.

Reading this warning

Gunnery and live firing
Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
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.
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.
NAVAREA
One of the 21 ocean areas of the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service, each with a coordinator that broadcasts long-range warnings.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

No parsed position is available for this comparison.

Worldwide in the collected sources

9 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 03:39Z; 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.