Gunnery and pyrotechnics exercises 301600Z apr to 010400Z may in area within five miles of 55-30N 168-30W
Bering Sea · NAVAREA XII 193/21
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2021-05-01 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 41/21 280239Z APR 21.. Issued 2021-04-28 11:40Z. 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 55.500, -168.500 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.
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-30 16:00Z | 2021-05-01 04:00Z | — | 12 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2021-04-28 11:40Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2021-05-01 05:00Z
- authority
- COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 41/21 280239Z APR 21.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XII
- issued by
- COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE
- sea
- Bering Sea
- position
- 55.500, -168.500 · r 5.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
BERING SEA. ALASKA. 1. GUNNERY AND PYROTECHNICS EXERCISES 301600Z APR TO 010400Z MAY IN AREA WITHIN FIVE MILES OF 55-30N 168-30W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 010500Z MAY 21.
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
109 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 11:48Z; 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.