Exercises

Special operations

North Atlantic Ocean · NAVAREA II 339/26

What this record establishes

Listed in force

The latest collected record lists this warning as active. This is the status of the notice, not a live observation of conditions at the location.

Source and dates: SHOM NAVAREA II via PING (eastern North Atlantic, West Africa) · SHOM — Service hydrographique et océanographique de la Marine (NAVAREA II coordinator). Issued 2026-09-26 16:00Z. First collected 2026-09-26 16:12Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-26 17:57Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 23.583, -17.000 with a 20.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the North Atlantic Ocean →

issued: 2026-09-26 16:00Z
status: Listed in force
authority: SHOM — Service hydrographique et océanographique de la Marine (NAVAREA II coordinator)
NAVAREA: NAVAREA II
issued by: SHOM
sea: North Atlantic Ocean
position: 23.583, -17.000 · r 20.0 nm
source: SHOM NAVAREA II via PING (eastern North Atlantic, West Africa) · first seen 2026-09-26 16:12Z

Original warning text

CAP BLANC.
SPECIAL OPERATIONS.
FIRING EXERCISE.
WITHIN 20 MILES OF:
DELTA 23-35N 017-00W BETWEEN 270 AND 360 DEGREES
NAVIGATE WITH CAUTION
RESTRICTED AREA

Reading this warning

Gunnery and live firing: Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
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.

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Conditions at the position · now

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MET Norway · NOAA WaveWatch III · HYCOM · GEBCO 2020 · model data at the centroid, not an observation

Collected reports in this area · military exercises

15 within 180 nm since 2000 · 6 in the last 12 months · 1 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.

Special operations2026-09-22
Special operations2026-09-19
Special operations2026-09-15
Hazardous operations 020001Z to 022359Z sep in area bound by 23-35.00N 017-00.00W, 23-35.08N 017-21.75W,…2026-08-29
Special operations2026-08-29
Gunnery exercises 0800Z to 1800Z daily 01 sep thru 30 dec within 20 miles of: a. 27-00N 013-50W between 270…2016-09-01

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

Newly discovered dangersWrecks · 67.9 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

32 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-26 17:59Z; 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.