Gunnery exercises 121700Z to 122200Z mar in area within 12 miles of 14-34.99N 061-47.36W
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 253/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-03-12 23:00Z
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) · WEST INDIES - COASTAL 8/23 071201Z MAR 23.. Issued 2023-03-07 12:31Z. 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 14.583, -61.789 with a 12.0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-12 17:00Z | 2023-03-12 22:00Z | — | 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
- 2023-03-07 12:31Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-03-12 23:00Z
- authority
- WEST INDIES - COASTAL 8/23 071201Z MAR 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- WEST INDIES - COASTAL
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 14.583, -61.789 · r 12.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA. GUADELOUPE. MARTINIQUE. 1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 121700Z TO 122200Z MAR IN AREA WITHIN 12 MILES OF 14-34.99N 061-47.36W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 122300Z MAR 23.
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
118 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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.
- Hazardous operations 211100Z to 211730Z mar in area bound by 16-12.18N 061-29.12W, 16-12.24N 061-30.84W,…2024-03-19
- 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
- Carenage range rear light 14-36.32N 061-03.74W changed to oc (2) g 50 meters 9 milesNav aids · 42.3 nm
- Pointe du vieux fort light 15-56.90N 061-42.46WNav aids · 82.1 nm
- Ilet du gosier light 16-11.90N 061-29.44W at reduced intensityOther · 98.5 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
28 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 21:06Z; 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.