Gunnery exercises 261300Z to 261600Z jun within 15 miles of 13-00N 062-10W
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 240/08
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2008-06-26 17:00Z
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) · COMSUP FORT DE FRANCE 241304Z JUN 08.. Issued 2008-06-24 14:45Z. 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
- Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 13.000, -62.167 with a 15.0 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 Caribbean Sea →
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-06-26 13:00Z | 2008-06-26 16:00Z | — | 3 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2008-06-24 14:45Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2008-06-26 17:00Z
- authority
- COMSUP FORT DE FRANCE 241304Z JUN 08.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- COMSUP FORT DE FRANCE
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 13.000, -62.167 · r 15.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 261300Z TO 261600Z JUN WITHIN 15 MILES OF 13-00N 062-10W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 261700Z JUN.
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
115 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 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.
- Hazardous operations in progress until further notice in areas bound by: a. 10-59.88N 064-17.05W, 11-11.68N…2025-03-25
- Hazardous operations 301400Z to 301600Z aug in area within 12 miles of 14-34.99N 061-47.36W2023-08-30
- Gunnery exercises 301200Z to 301600Z aug in area within 12 miles of 14-35.00N 061-47.36W2023-08-28
- Gunnery exercises 311600Z to 312000Z aug in area within 12 miles of 14-35.00N 061-47.36W2023-08-27
- Gunnery exercise 021200Z to 021700Z jul in area within 12 miles of 14-35.00N 061-47.36W2023-06-29
- Gunnery exercise 301100Z to 301500Z jun in area within 12 miles of 14-34.99N 061-47.36W2023-06-29
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
- GrenadinesWrecks · 50.6 nm
- Isla testigo grande light 11-22.90N 063-07.20W unlitNav aids · 112.1 nm
- Carenage range rear light 14-36.32N 061-03.74W changed to oc (2) g 50 meters 9 milesNav aids · 115.9 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
28 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 19:50Z; 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.