Gunnery exercises 111600Z to 112100Z aug within five miles of 59-30N 176-30W
Bering Sea · NAVAREA XII 260/16
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2016-08-11 22:00Z
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) · USCGC MIDGETT 101656Z AUG 16.. Issued 2016-08-10 17:05Z. 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 59.500, -176.500 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-11 16:00Z | 2016-08-11 21:00Z | — | 5 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2016-08-10 17:05Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2016-08-11 22:00Z
- authority
- USCGC MIDGETT 101656Z AUG 16.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XII
- issued by
- USCGC MIDGETT
- sea
- Bering Sea
- position
- 59.500, -176.500 · 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. GUNNERY. 1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 111600Z TO 112100Z AUG WITHIN FIVE MILES OF 59-30N 176-30W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 112200Z 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
30 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 131600Z to 140600Z jul in area within 15 miles of 59-50.00N 176-50.00W2023-07-12
- Gunnery exercises 052100Z to 060400Z jul in area within 20 miles of 59-07N 175-15W2018-07-05
- Gunnery exercises 151600Z to 152359Z aug in area within 11 miles of 59-50N 175-20W2017-08-15
- Gunnery and pyrotechnic operations 151600Z to 152359Z aug in area within 12.5 miles of 59-50N 177-50W2017-08-14
- Gunnery exercises: a. 261600Z to 270530Z sep, alternate 281600Z to 290530Z sep within 30000 yards of 55-28N…2014-09-25
- Gunnery exercises: a. 272000Z to 280001Z aug within five miles of 56-00N 168-00W2014-08-26
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
31 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-30 09:55Z; 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.