Special operations
North Atlantic Ocean · NAVAREA II 345/26
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 2026-10-02 14:41Z. First collected 2026-10-02 14:42Z; last seen in collection 2026-10-02 14:57Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- North Atlantic Ocean. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Current notices and reporting history in the North Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2026-10-02 14:41Z
- 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
- 47.363, -7.614
- source
- SHOM NAVAREA II via PING (eastern North Atlantic, West Africa) · first seen 2026-10-02 14:42Z
Original warning text
PAZENN. SPECIAL OPERATIONS. FIRING EXERCISE. AREA BOUNDED BY: 47-40.00N 008-00.00W 47-40.26N 007-35.26W 47-25.01N 007-06.26W 47-06.38N 007-13.58W 47-05.18N 008-00.00W 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.
- Area bound by
- Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
- 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.
Conditions at the position · now
loading…
MET Norway · NOAA WaveWatch III · HYCOM · GEBCO 2020 · model data at the centroid, not an observation
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
466 within 180 nm since 1999 · 1 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.
- Gunnery exercises 021100Z to 021300Z and 021400Z to 021600Z may in area bound by 48-20.40N 004-37.00W,…2024-05-02
- Gunnery exercises 010700Z to 010900Z may in area bound by 48-21.00N 005-20.00W, 48-21.00N 004-53.00W,…2024-04-30
- Gunnery exercises 291400Z to 291600Z apr in area bound by 48-20.40N 004-37.00W, 48-20.01N 004-39.52W,…2024-04-26
- Gunnery exercises 231300Z to 231500Z and 231700Z to 231900Z apr in area bound by 47-46.40N 005-00.00W,…2024-04-22
- Gunnery exercises 200600Z to 200900Z apr in area bound by 48-20.40N 004-37.00W, 48-20.01N 004-39.52W,…2024-04-19
- Gunnery exercises 200800Z to 201000Z apr in area bound by 47-46.40N 005-00.00W, 47-48.30N 005-38.10W,…2024-04-19
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
29 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 14:57Z; 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.