Gunnery exercises 021800Z to 022359Z apr within 12 miles of 55-47N 171-24W
Bering Sea · NAVAREA XII 163/09
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2009-04-03 00:59Z
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) · CCGD17 110/09 301800Z MAR 09.. Issued 2009-03-30 20:39Z. 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 55.783, -171.400 with a 12.0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-04-02 18:00Z | 2009-04-02 23:59Z | — | 5 h 59 |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2009-03-30 20:39Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2009-04-03 00:59Z
- authority
- CCGD17 110/09 301800Z MAR 09.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XII
- sea
- Bering Sea
- position
- 55.783, -171.400 · r 12.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 021800Z TO 022359Z APR WITHIN 12 MILES OF 55-47N 171-24W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 030059Z APR.
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
101 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.
- Gunnery exercises 090100Z to 090200Z mar in area within 11 miles of 55-29.98N 169-00.00W2024-03-08
- Gunnery exercises 052100Z to 060200Z sep in area within 23 miles of 55-44.89N 168-30.00W2023-09-04
- Gunnery exercises 1600Z to 0001Z daily 29 and 30 jul in area within ten miles of 55-41.98N 169-25.00W2023-07-28
- Gunnery and pyrotechnic operations 261600Z to 270600Z jun in area within 11 miles of 55-50.00N 169-00.00W2023-06-21
- Gunnery exercises 021600Z to 030600Z jun in area within 15 miles of 55-50.0N 169-00.0W2023-05-31
- Gunnery exercises 051800Z to 052359Z nov in area within five miles of 55-29.99N 171-30.00W2022-11-03
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
9 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 23:20Z; 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.