Gunnery exercises 241400Z to 241800Z aug within 10000 yards of: a. 61-43N 168-06W
Bering Sea · NAVAREA XII 229/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-08-24 19:00Z
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 ANCHORANGE 223/12 232214Z AUG 12.. Issued 2012-08-24 00:38Z. 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 61.972, -168.089. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-08-24 14:00Z | 2012-08-24 18:00Z | — | 4 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2012-08-24 00:38Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2012-08-24 19:00Z
- authority
- COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORANGE 223/12 232214Z AUG 12.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XII
- issued by
- COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORANGE
- sea
- Bering Sea
- position
- 61.972, -168.089
- 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 241400Z TO 241800Z AUG WITHIN 10000 YARDS OF: A. 61-43N 168-06W. B. 62-11N 168-04W. C. 62-01N 168-06W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 241900Z AUG 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.
- 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
8 within 180 nm since 2008 · 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 exercise 231400Z to 261400Z may in area bound by 64-15.00N 172-15.00W, 64-15.00N 172-30.00W,…2023-05-18
- Gunnery exercises: a. 201600Z to 202200Z jul within five miles of 59-23.12N 168-07.35W2013-07-19
- Gunnery exercises: a. 061500Z to 070400Z oct within five miles of 63-38N 166-33W2009-10-06
- Gunnery exercises 062300Z to 070400Z oct within five miles of 63-38N 166-33W2009-10-04
- Gunnery exercises 2100Z to 2300Z daily within 10,000 yards of: a. 55-39N 168-13W on 05 sep2009-09-04
- Gunnery exercises 2100Z to 2300Z daily within 10,000 yards of: a. 57-13N 166-46W on 05 sep2009-09-03
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
28 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 14:09Z; 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.