Exercises

Gunnery exercises 260100Z to 260430Z may within eight miles of 53-01-26N 176-55-28E

Bering Sea · NAVAREA XII 161/16

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2016-05-26 05:30Z

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 83/16 252239Z MAY 16.. Issued 2016-05-25 23:20Z. 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. The parsed report position is 53.024, 176.924 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.

Current notices and reporting history in the Bering Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)	closes (UTC)	local	length
2016-05-26 01:00Z	2016-05-26 04:30Z	—	3 h 30

Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.

issued: 2016-05-25 23:20Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2016-05-26 05:30Z
authority: COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 83/16 252239Z MAY 16.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA XII
issued by: COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE
sea: Bering Sea
position: 53.024, 176.924 · 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 260100Z TO 260430Z MAY
   WITHIN EIGHT MILES OF 53-01-26N 176-55-28E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 260530Z 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.

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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.

Gunnery exercises 261400Z to 280001Z may within eight miles of 53-08N 176-46E2016-05-24

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

Uscg remote communication facility shemya 52-43.00N 174-07.00E hf transmit and receive services inoperativeNav aids · 103.4 nm
Commdet kodiak, ak remote site shemya 52-43.00N 174-07.00E hf r/t services off airNav aids · 103.4 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

9 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 00:23Z; 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.