Gunnery exercise 291700Z to 291900Z may within five miles of 51-12.5N 174-43.4W
North Pacific Ocean · NAVAREA XII 165/16
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2016-05-29 20:00Z
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 85/16 281900Z MAY 16.. Issued 2016-05-28 19:30Z. 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
- North Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is 51.208, -174.723 with a 5.0 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 North Pacific Ocean →
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-05-29 17:00Z | 2016-05-29 19:00Z | — | 2 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2016-05-28 19:30Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2016-05-29 20:00Z
- authority
- COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 85/16 281900Z MAY 16.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XII
- issued by
- COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE
- sea
- North Pacific Ocean
- position
- 51.208, -174.723 · r 5.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
NORTH PACIFIC. ALASKA. GUNNERY. 1. GUNNERY EXERCISE 291700Z TO 291900Z MAY WITHIN FIVE MILES OF 51-12.5N 174-43.4W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 292000Z 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
12 within 180 nm since 2007 · 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.
- Hazardous operations 292200Z to 300330Z aug, alternate 2200Z to 0330Z daily 30 aug thru 02 sep in area bound…2022-08-24
- Gunnery exercises 091900Z to 100001Z nov in area within 11 miles of 51-14N 174-50W2021-11-08
- Gunnery and pyrotechnic operations 242000Z to 250400Z aug in area within 500 yards of 52-54N 172-07W2018-08-24
- Gunnery exercises 231700Z to 232000Z sep within five miles of 51-14N 174-50W2016-09-22
- Gunnery exercise 241600Z to 242000Z aug within six miles of 52-44N 178-22W2016-08-23
- Gunnery exercises 040600Z to 040730Z aug within one mile of 53-06N 178-04W2016-08-03
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 02:13Z; 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.