Exercises

Gunnery exercises: a. 302100Z to 302200Z jul within 12 miles of 55-58N 168-04W

Bering Sea · NAVAREA XII 186/12

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2012-07-31 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 202/12 270320Z JUL 12.. Issued 2012-07-27 05:09Z. 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 map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Bering Sea →

Activity windows · 3 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2012-07-30 21:00Z2012-07-30 22:00Z—1 h
2012-07-31 01:00Z2012-07-31 02:00Z—1 h
2012-07-31 03:00Z2012-07-31 04:00Z—1 h

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

issued
2012-07-27 05:09Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2012-07-31 05:00Z
authority
COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 202/12 270320Z JUL 12.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XII
issued by
COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE
sea
Bering Sea
position
55.732, -168.568
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

BERING SEA.
GUNNERY.
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES:
   A. 302100Z TO 302200Z JUL
      WITHIN 12 MILES OF 55-58N 168-04W.
   B. 310100Z TO 310200Z JUL
      WITHIN 12 MILES OF 55-46N 168-35W.
   C. 310300Z TO 310400Z JUL
      WITHIN 12 MILES OF 55-28N 169-03W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 310500Z JUL 12.

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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · military exercises

109 within 180 nm since 2002 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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

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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 21:11Z; 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.