Gunnery exercises 261400Z to 280001Z may within eight miles of 53-08N 176-46E
Bering Sea · NAVAREA XII 159/16
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2016-05-25 00:45Z
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 82/16 240910Z MAY 16.. Issued 2016-05-24 11:32Z. 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. The parsed report position is 53.133, 176.767 with a 8.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Cancel NAVAREA XII 159/16 and this msg, exercises postponedlater cancellation notice
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-05-26 14:00Z | 2016-05-28 00:01Z | — | 34 h 01 |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2016-05-24 11:32Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2016-05-28 01:01Z
- authority
- COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 82/16 240910Z MAY 16.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XII
- issued by
- COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE
- sea
- Bering Sea
- position
- 53.133, 176.767 · r 8.0 nm
- 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 261400Z TO 280001Z MAY WITHIN EIGHT MILES OF 53-08N 176-46E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 280101Z 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.
- 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 · military exercises
2 within 180 nm since 2016 · 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
Worldwide in the collected sources
31 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-29 21:32Z; 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.