Gunnery exercises 040600Z to 040730Z aug within one mile of 53-06N 178-04W
Bering Sea · NAVAREA XII 242/16
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2016-08-04 08:30Z
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 139/16 030620Z AUG 16.. Issued 2016-08-03 07:45Z. 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 53.100, -178.067 with a 1.0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-04 06:00Z | 2016-08-04 07:30Z | — | 1 h 30 |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2016-08-03 07:45Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2016-08-04 08:30Z
- authority
- COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 139/16 030620Z AUG 16.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XII
- issued by
- COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE
- sea
- Bering Sea
- position
- 53.100, -178.067 · r 1.0 nm
- 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 040600Z TO 040730Z AUG WITHIN ONE MILE OF 53-06N 178-04W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 040830Z AUG 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
10 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.
- Gunnery exercises 091900Z to 100001Z nov in area within 11 miles of 51-14N 174-50W2021-11-08
- 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 exercise 291700Z to 291900Z may within five miles of 51-12.5N 174-43.4W2016-05-28
- Gunnery exercises 221700Z to 230100Z may within 12 miles of 52-42N 178-50W2016-05-19
- Gunnery exercises 242100Z to 250200Z apr within 13 miles of: a. 52-52N 177-36W2014-04-20
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
28 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 14:17Z; 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.