Gunnery exercises 171700Z to 172100Z aug within 15 miles of 17-47.16N 067-52.32W
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 680/16
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2016-08-17 22:00Z
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) · COMCOGARD SECTOR SAN JUAN 145/16 170126Z AUG 16.. Issued 2016-08-17 05:39Z. 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 17.786, -67.872 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-17 17:00Z | 2016-08-17 21:00Z | — | 4 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2016-08-17 05:39Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2016-08-17 22:00Z
- authority
- COMCOGARD SECTOR SAN JUAN 145/16 170126Z AUG 16.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- COMCOGARD SECTOR SAN JUAN
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 17.786, -67.872 · r 15.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CARIBBEAN SEA. PUERTO RICO-SOUTHWEST COAST. GUNNERY. 1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 171700Z TO 172100Z AUG WITHIN 15 MILES OF 17-47.16N 067-52.32W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 172200Z AUG 16.
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
10 within 180 nm since 2014 · 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 30 nov thru 31 jan 22 in area bound by 18-01-32N 069-19-58W, 18-01-30N 070-00-37W,…2021-11-29
- Gunnery exercises 071330Z to 071700Z sep within 15 miles of 18-03N 064-50W2016-09-06
- Gunnery exercises 301230Z to 301400Z aug within 15 miles of 18-30N 066-07W2016-08-29
- Gunnery exercises 201300Z to 201900Z jul within 15 miles of 18-40.5N 066-08.5W2016-07-19
- Gunnery exercises 181300Z to 181900Z jul within 15 miles of 18-40.5N 066-08.5W2016-07-18
- Gunnery exercises 111200Z to 111600Z may within 12 miles of 18-41.0N 066-03.5W2016-05-10
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
- Punta laguna light 18-08.3N 068-45.3W unlitNav aids · 54.7 nm
- Cabo engano lighthouse 18-36.80N 068-19.50W unlitNav aids · 56 nm
- Due to hurricane erin, lateral buoys removed: a. buoy 1 19-10.61N 069-16.51WNav aids · 112.6 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
9 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-04 05:35Z; 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.