Hazardous operations 2000Z to 0408Z commencing daily 28 feb thru 01 apr in areas: a. within 12 miles of…
Arctic Ocean · NAVAREA IV 70/02
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2002-03-01 17:50Z
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) · COMAR GUYANE CAYENNE 6/02 212015Z FEB 02. Issued 2002-02-25 13:10Z. 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
- Arctic Ocean. The parsed report position is 81.870, -101.010. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Hazardous operations 2000Z to 0408Z commencing daily 28 feb thru 01 apr in areas: a. within 12 miles of…cancelled by this notice
- Cancel NAVAREA IV 70/02 and this msg, operations completedlater cancellation notice
Activity windows · 33 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-02-28 20:00Z | 2002-03-01 04:08Z | — | 8 h 08 |
| 2002-03-01 20:00Z | 2002-03-02 04:08Z | — | 8 h 08 |
| 2002-03-02 20:00Z | 2002-03-03 04:08Z | — | 8 h 08 |
| 2002-03-03 20:00Z | 2002-03-04 04:08Z | — | 8 h 08 |
| 2002-03-04 20:00Z | 2002-03-05 04:08Z | — | 8 h 08 |
| 2002-03-05 20:00Z | 2002-03-06 04:08Z | — | 8 h 08 |
| 2002-03-06 20:00Z | 2002-03-07 04:08Z | — | 8 h 08 |
| 2002-03-07 20:00Z | 2002-03-08 04:08Z | — | 8 h 08 |
| … 25 more | |||
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2002-02-25 13:10Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2002-04-02 05:08Z
- authority
- COMAR GUYANE CAYENNE 6/02 212015Z FEB 02
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- COMAR GUYANE
- sea
- Arctic Ocean
- position
- 81.870, -101.010
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 2000Z TO 0408Z COMMENCING DAILY
28 FEB THRU 01 APR IN AREAS:
A. WITHIN 12 MILES OF COASTLINE BETWEEN
05-26N 053-00W AND 05-09N 052-37W.
B. BOUND BY 10-39N 052-09W, 10-33N 051-37W,
09-40N 051-46W, 09-47N 052-18W.
C. BOUND BY 11-51N 052-22W, 11-44N 051-29W,
10-54N 051-36W, 11-00N 052-28W.
D. BOUND BY 85-47N 105-04W, 83-57N 087-37W,
83-30N 097-29W, 84-58N 118-54W.
2. CANCEL NAVAREA IV 66/02.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 020508Z APR.
Reading this warning
- Hazardous operations
- NGA's heading for activities that make an area dangerous — most often rocket launches, space debris and weapons firings, and some open-ended danger areas.
- 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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- NAVAREA
- One of the 21 ocean areas of the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service, each with a coordinator that broadcasts long-range warnings.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
4 within 180 nm since 2002 · 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 2000Z to 0408Z commencing daily 28 feb thru 01 apr in areas: a. within 12 miles of…2002-02-25
- Hazardous operations 2000Z to 0408Z commencing daily 28 feb thru 01 apr in areas: a. within 12 miles of…2002-02-23
- Hazardous operations 2000Z to 0408Z commencing daily 28 feb thru 01 apr in areas: a. within 12 miles of…2002-02-23
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
28 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 06:52Z; 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.