Gunnery exercises 062300Z to 070400Z oct within five miles of 63-38N 166-33W
Bering Sea · NAVAREA XII 455/09
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2009-10-07 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) · CCGD17 387/09 041739Z OCT 09.. Issued 2009-10-04 09:51Z. 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 63.633, -166.550 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-10-06 23:00Z | 2009-10-07 04:00Z | — | 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
- 2009-10-04 09:51Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2009-10-07 05:00Z
- authority
- CCGD17 387/09 041739Z OCT 09.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XII
- sea
- Bering Sea
- position
- 63.633, -166.550 · r 5.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 062300Z TO 070400Z OCT WITHIN FIVE MILES OF 63-38N 166-33W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 070500Z OCT.
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
9 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 exercises 0100Z to 0600Z daily 31 aug thru 02 sep in area bound by 65-50.00N 170-00.00W, 65-50.00N…2023-08-26
- 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 2000Z to 2359Z daily 25 thru 28 jul in area bound by 65-56N 169-37W, 65-56N 169-13W,…2021-07-21
- Gunnery exercises 2000Z to 0001Z daily 13 thru 17 and 20 thru 24 jun in area bound by 65-56N 170-12W, 65-56N…2021-06-08
- Gunnery exercises 241400Z to 241800Z aug within 10000 yards of: a. 61-43N 168-06W2012-08-24
- Gunnery exercises: a. 061500Z to 070400Z oct within five miles of 63-38N 166-33W2009-10-06
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 02:06Z; 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.