Romania’s Maritime Hydrographic Directorate has published a new radio navigational warning that is now the working 9 November training circle on the eastern Romanian Black Sea shelf, not a reprint of this morning’s dedicated ARN 166/26 prohibited firing box off Midia. The official English text, printed on the Directorate’s avize-radio page and published 6 November 2026, states: BLACK SEA. ROMANIA. POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS TRAINING EXERCISE. A potentially dangerous training exercise on days of 09 NOV26 within a circular area with a radius of 20 km, centered in position 44-02,80 N 030-35,20 E. To ensure the safety of navigation, mariners are advised to avoid entering this area, exercise caution in its vicinity and avoid interfering with the conduct of the exercise. Cancel this message on 092130 UTC NOV26. The Romanian page prints the same centre and the same 20 km radius as exercițiu de antrenament, 09.11.2026, raion circular, evitați intrarea, prudență în vecinătate, nu interferați, and a cancel of 23:30 local on 9 November 2026. Industry coastal reprints and SeaLagom carry the notice as 167/26, active until 092130 UTC on 9 November.
That is the working primary. Friday afternoon’s product is a one-day circular training watch, not a rewrite of this morning’s dedicated ARN 166/26 Midia heptagon and not a second piping watch. It does not name a hull. It does not name an IMO number. It does not name a UAV, a VHF working channel, a numeric berth in cables, daily firing hours, or a harbour-master closure of Constanta or Midia. It does not convert the circle into a mine, a drifting tanker, or Wednesday afternoon’s dedicated ARN 163/2026 floating-piping polygon. This morning’s dedicated 166/26 piece on this desk remains real firing on 12 and 13 November, 0700–1300 UTC, seven corners around 44-21 N, 028-52 E, prohibited area to navigation, cancel 131400 UTC 13 November. Wednesday night’s dedicated 164/2026 piece remains real firing on 11 and 12 November, 0700–1200 UTC, four corners around 43-50 N, 028-59.5 E, dangerous to navigation, ships that do not participate should avoid the area, cancel 121300 UTC 12 November. Those boxes sit west of this afternoon’s centre. Masters who brief Friday afternoon as a reprint of the Midia prohibited polygon, as a 43-50 N rectangle moved east, as a Khoryv move, or as a revival of cancelled ARN 162/2026 will have merged a 20 km training circle onto a different firing series.
What the warning actually printed
The hydrographic text is short and is the working primary. BLACK SEA. ROMANIA. POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS TRAINING EXERCISE. Published 6 November 2026. A potentially dangerous training exercise on 9 November 2026 within a circular area with a radius of 20 km, centred at 44-02.80 N 030-35.20 E. Mariners are advised to avoid entering this area, exercise caution in its vicinity and avoid interfering with the conduct of the exercise. Cancel 092130 UTC 9 November 2026. That is the product. Stay with that wording. The Directorate did not print a hull name. It did not print an IMO number. It did not print “UAV,” “drone,” “missile,” “real firing,” or a weapon class. It did not print a VHF working channel, a range-safety net, or a NOTAM number. It did not print a keep-clear in nautical miles or cables outside the 20 km radius. The instruction is avoid entering, caution in the vicinity, and do not interfere, not this morning’s prohibited area to navigation and not Wednesday night’s dangerous / avoid sentence. It did not close Constanta, Midia, Mangalia or the Sulina Canal. It did not print a night window. It did not print 0700–1300 UTC or 0700–1200 UTC. The only named day is 9 November. The only named radius is 20 km. The only named centre is 44-02.80 N 030-35.20 E. The only named cancel is 092130 UTC 9 November.
The geometry is the first briefing fact. Twenty kilometres is about 10.8 nautical miles. The circle sits around 44-02.80 N, 030-35.20 E, on the order of 80 to 90 nautical miles east of Constanta and well east of this morning’s Midia west wall at 028-42.4 E. The standing production-platform notice on the same avize-radio page, used as colour and not as a 167/26 amendment, still prints Neptun Alpha at the central point 44-02.85 N 030-35.25 E with a 500-metre safety distance. NAVAREA III 0137/26, still in weekly group 44 on dedicated 0168/26, reprints that same 44-02.85 N 030-35.25 E plot and the same 500-metre berth. The 167/26 centre is about one tenth of a nautical mile from that platform plot. A 20 km circle swallows a 500-metre platform berth. Those are two instruments. 167/26 did not print “Neptun Alpha,” “500 metres,” “production platform,” or 44-02.85 N 030-35.25 E. Do not brief Friday afternoon as a platform-berth rewrite. Do not drop the 500-metre Neptun Alpha watch because a 20 km training circle now sits on the same shelf. Plot the circle. Stay out of 10.8 nautical miles of 44-02.80 N, 030-35.20 E on 9 November. Keep the 500-metre platform berth on its own sheet through and after 092130 UTC unless a later ARN moves that plot.
The clocks are the second briefing fact. English prints the exercise on 9 November and a cancel of 092130 UTC 9 November. Romanian prints 09.11.2026 and a cancel of 23:30 local on 9 November. Those match: Eastern European Time in November is UTC+2. The Directorate did not print a start hour, a stop hour, a 0700 UTC open, or a 1300 UTC close. A passage plan that treats the circle as live only between 0700 and 1300 UTC because 166/26 uses those hours has borrowed another number’s window. A passage plan that treats the circle as live all week has over-read a one-day exercise with a 092130 UTC kill. A passage plan that keeps avoiding 44-02.80 N, 030-35.20 E after 092130 UTC 9 November without a replacement ARN has over-read a self-cancelling training notice. The Directorate has not printed a 10–13 November extension, a reduced radius, or a night-only limit. Plot the centre. Stay out of the 20 km on 9 November. Kill the training watch at 092130 UTC on 9 November unless a later ARN moves the plot.
The instruction split is the third briefing fact, not a merger. This morning’s dedicated 166/26 is real firing, prohibited area to navigation, seven corners, 12 and 13 November, 0700–1300 UTC, cancel 131400 UTC 13 November. Wednesday night’s dedicated 164/2026 is real firing, dangerous / avoid, four corners, 11 and 12 November, 0700–1200 UTC, cancel 121300 UTC 12 November. 167/26 is a potentially dangerous training exercise, avoid entering, caution in the vicinity, do not interfere, 20 km circle, 9 November, cancel 092130 UTC 9 November. Those are three numbered products, three geometries, three sentences, three calendars. A passage plan that drops 166/26 because “the new Romanian notice is a 20 km circle” has deleted a live Midia prohibited polygon whose first firing morning is still 12 November. A passage plan that drops 164/2026 at sunrise on 9 November because “training is east of Constanta” has deleted a live 43-50 N avoid rectangle whose first firing morning is still 11 November. Carry all three.
The missing UAV, VHF, daily-hours and numeric-berth lines are omissions, not a completed exercise order. This morning’s 166/26 printed real firing and a prohibited sentence and still printed neither UAV nor VHF. 167/26 prints training and an avoid/caution/do-not-interfere sentence and still prints neither. Do not restore a UAV line. Do not invent a missile corridor. Do not invent Channel 16 as a range-safety net because dedicated Khoryv files used it. Do not borrow 162/2026’s two nautical miles, 158/2026’s one nautical mile, 766/26’s five cables, or Neptun Alpha’s 500 metres onto a circle that already says 20 km. Give the centre and the radius. Do not invent a one-nautical-mile halo outside 20 km.
The Romanian public map-page number is a label split, not a rewrite of this morning’s firing. The live Romanian avize-radio list currently prints ARN 166/2026 next to this afternoon’s 9 November exercițiu de antrenament item. That is the same map-page shift this desk has already seen on this coastline: the public list attaches an older number to the newest card. Official English published 6 November does not print a number in the body retrieved this afternoon. Industry coastal reprints and SeaLagom number the 9 November training circle as 167/26 and still number the 12–13 November firing as 166/26. This morning’s dedicated file remains ARN 166/26, seven corners, 0700–1300 UTC, prohibited, cancel 131400 UTC 13 November. Do not overwrite that file with this afternoon’s circle. Do not brief 167/26 as “166 reprinted as a 20 km disc.” Log industry 167/26 against the 6 November English training-exercise body. Log the map-page 166 tag as a label discrepancy, not as a second Midia amendment.
What this is not, and the same-coast hydrographic colour
This is not a rewrite of ARN 166/26, and it is not a Midia move. This morning’s dedicated Directorate piece remains: real firing, 12 and 13 November, 0700–1300 UTC, 44-25.43 N 028-42.50 E, 44-29.50 N 028-55.58 E, 44-25.08 N 029-01.20 E, 44-19.70 N 029-00.82 E, 44-14.57 N 028-57.93 E, 44-13.10 N 028-56.33 E and 44-22.08 N 028-42.42 E, prohibited area to navigation, cancel 131400 UTC 13 November. That polygon is about 16 nautical miles north–south around 44-21 N, 028-52 E, on the doorstep of Midia. This afternoon’s centre is 44-02.80 N, 030-35.20 E, on the order of 70 nautical miles east of that east wall at 029-01.20 E. A 20 km training circle on the Neptun shelf and a prohibited heptagon off Midia are two instruments. Do not brief Friday afternoon as “166 moved east.” Do not drop 166/26 because 167/26 exists. The Midia box still fires on 12 and 13 November. The training circle kills itself on 9 November, three days before that first firing morning.
This is not a rewrite of ARN 164/2026, and it is not a 43-50 N move. Wednesday night’s dedicated Directorate piece remains: real firing, 11 and 12 November, 0700–1200 UTC, 43-45.00 N 028-51.00 E, 43-55.00 N 028-51.00 E, 43-55.00 N 029-08.00 E, 43-45.00 N 029-08.00 E, dangerous to navigation, ships that do not participate should avoid the area, cancel 121300 UTC 12 November. That rectangle is about 10 by 12 nautical miles around 43-50 N, 028-59.5 E, on the doorstep of recommended landfall 43-47.59 N, 028-50.86 E. This afternoon’s south-western arc does not reach 028-51 E. Do not brief Friday afternoon as that rectangle moved east. Do not drop 164/2026 on 9 November. The 43-50 N box still fires on 11 and 12 November.
This is not a rewrite of ARN 163/2026, and it is not a Mangalia piping move. Wednesday afternoon’s dedicated Directorate piece remains: protection works, floating piping, 43-46.38 N 028-34.86 E, 43-46.30 N 028-36.62 E, 43-47.50 N 028-36.72 E, 43-47.31 N 028-34.92 E, keep clear, safe distance, dangerous to navigation, cancel 152159 UTC 15 December. That box is about 1.2 by 1.1 nautical miles around 43-46.7 N, 028-35.8 E, inshore, south-west of both firing products and well west of this afternoon’s 030-35 E centre. Do not brief Friday afternoon as “the piping went live-training.” Do not drop 163/2026 because 167/26 exists. The hose still holds through 15 December. The training kills itself on 9 November.
This is not a rewrite of the standing Neptun Alpha 500-metre berth, and it is not NAVAREA III 0137/26. The Directorate’s undated production-platform card still reads: the Neptun Alpha production platform was established at the central point 44-02.85 N 030-35.25 E; maintain a safety distance of 500 metres. Dedicated 0168/26, weekly group 44, still lists 0137/26 Neptun Alpha 44-02.85 N 030-35.25 E, 500 m, among the 2026 in-force numbers, and still cancels itself at 092359 UTC 9 November. 167/26 prints neither “Neptun Alpha” nor 500 metres. A DPA who briefs Friday afternoon as “0137/26 has become a 20 km training circle” has borrowed a standing platform berth and dropped the unnamed exercise. Keep the 500-metre watch. Add the 20 km circle for 9 November. Do not replace one with the other. Dedicated 0168/26 does not print 167/26. SafetyNet at 1200 UTC and 2359 UTC will not carry 167/26 merely because 0168/26 is in force through the same evening. Keep the Directorate file in the master’s Black Sea coastal pack alongside the NAVAREA III wrapper, not inside it. The 0168/26 cancel at 092359 UTC sits 29 minutes after 167/26’s 092130 UTC kill; those are two clocks on two products, not a merged all-clear.
This is not a rewrite of cancelled ARN 162/2026, and it is not a Khoryv move. Sunday 1 November’s dedicated Directorate piece remains the last Romanian drifting-object watch on this desk: ARN 162/2026, 44-30.94 N 029-33.70 E, two-nautical-mile berth, cancel 021000 UTC 2 November. That cancel has passed. Tuesday 27 October’s dedicated ARN 158/2026 remains the last Romanian wreck-move on M/V Khoryv: 43-49.50 N, 028-53.37 E, remains afloat, capsized, three missing, one-nautical-mile keep-clear. Thursday 29 October’s dedicated Bulgarian NAVWARN 766/26 remains the working five-cable keep-clear east of Shabla at 43-30.60 N, 028-43.69 E. 167/26 prints neither a drifting object nor Khoryv nor 44-30.94 N nor 43-49.50 N. Do not brief Friday afternoon as “the 44-30 N object became a training circle.”
This is not a rewrite of NAVWARN 768/26, and it is not a Contship Jet or Mentor training. Thursday 29 October’s dedicated Bulgarian notice remains: M/V Contship Jet, IMO 9348625, sunk at 282030 UTC October 2026 in 43-07.80 N 028-45.36 E. Thursday 5 November’s dedicated 797/26 remains unmanned tanker Mentor, IMO 9340374, at 43-25.1 N 028-37.0 E. Wednesday night’s dedicated 789/26 remains Akademik, one nautical mile, through 30 November. Dedicated 777/26 remains cutter 331 through 061600 UTC 6 November — that window is now past on this 1130 UTC Friday desk. 167/26 does not name Contship Jet, Mentor, Akademik or cutter 331, does not print 43-07.80 N 028-45.36 E, and does not print a container count. The Neptun shelf and the Bulgarian 43-25 N Mentor plot are not the same box. Do not convert Friday afternoon’s training circle into Thursday’s dedicated unmanned-tanker watch because both sit on the western Black Sea.
This is not ARN 123/2026, and it is not ARN 146/2026. Official ARN 123/2026 remains the separate coastal-protection works: until 31 January 2027, anchors marked by orange buoys, 43-56.48 N 028-38.90 E and three other corners, cancel 312130 UTC 31 January 2027. Official ARN 146/2026 remains the missing port-hand light buoy at 43-48.17 N 028-33.72 E. Official ARN 41/2026 remains the starboard light buoy out of position at 43-47.92 N 028-34.68 E. Those are buoyage and works defects inshore of the piping. They are not 167/26. Do not brief the training circle as a replacement for a missing buoy.
This is not Wine Trader, not Royad Mammadov, and not Progress IV. ARN 145/2026 remains the 15 October fire-and-unmanned notice on M/V Wine Trader at 45-00.40 N 029-59.92 E. ARN 141/2026 remains M/V Royad Mammadov in danger of sinking at 44-27.64 N 029-46.90 E. ARN 118/2026 remains M/V Progress IV sunk at 44-37.64 N 029-48.14 E, two-nautical-mile safety zone. 167/26 names none of those hulls. A DPA who briefs Friday afternoon as “Royad Mammadov’s box went live-training” has borrowed a 7 October sinking plot and has dropped the unnamed exercise that is the whole of this notice.
This is not Wednesday afternoon’s dedicated NAVAREA III 0169/26, and it is not this morning’s dedicated NAVAREA IX 431/26. 0169/26 is the Britoil Centurion oceanographic track in the Central Mediterranean through 15 February 2027. 431/26 remains the Fujairah jack-up on SKATE 3D inside Port of Fujairah, cancel 132359 UTC 13 November. Neither number prints 44-02.80 N 030-35.20 E. This is also not dedicated 424/26’s 3–4 November Pakistan firing box, which cancelled at 040700 UTC on 4 November, and not 414/26’s November Pakistan series around 24 N. Those are Arabian Sea and Southern Gulf products. They do not belong on a Romanian 44-02.8 N watch.
Official HNHS NAVWARN 1338/2026, English board 5 November, THRAKIKO SEA. MARONEIA PORT. NE MOLE HEAD. RED LIGHT IN POSITION: 40 52 36N – 025 30 26E UNLIT, and NAVWARN 1339/2026, THRAKIKO SEA. VISTONIKOS BAY IMEROS PORT. EAST MOLE HEAD RED LIGHT IN POSITION 40 56 00N – 025 21 40E UNLIT, remain unused as dedicated. They are Thracian Sea unlit-light products, not a Romanian training circle, and they are wrap colour on this Black Sea desk, not a second 167/26 piece. Official NAVAREA II 386/2026, Pointe Noire, several containers and heavy floating debris adrift on the surface and in the water column in vicinity 04-11S 010-39E on 02 November, remains unused as dedicated.
Operational implications
For a master running the eastern Romanian shelf, a Neptun Deep / Neptun Alpha approach, or a Constanta–Ukrainian-approaches track 4 join toward 44-26.93 N, 029-43.20 E and beyond, Friday afternoon is a one-day 20 km avoid problem on 9 November before it is a war-risk rewrite. The Directorate printed a circle whose centre sits on the same shelf as the standing 500-metre Neptun Alpha berth, named 9 November, named avoid entering / caution in the vicinity / do not interfere, and named a 092130 UTC 9 November cancel. A potentially dangerous training exercise under an avoid sentence is a closed disc for ships that are not in the exercise. It is not AIS-optional. It is not a port closure. It is not a prohibited firing box off Midia. The standing recommended-routes notice still tells ships to use 43-47.59 N, 028-50.86 E for landfall; that waypoint remains Wednesday night’s 164/2026 watch, not this circle. A passage plan that only carried 166/26, or that treated 9 November as empty east of 029 E because the Midia heptagon does not fire until 12 November, has not budgeted 10.8 nautical miles around 44-02.80 N, 030-35.20 E on Monday.
The 9–13 November tape is the operational content. 167/26 occupies 44-02.80 N from the 6 November publication through 092130 UTC on 9 November, with the named exercise day on 9 November. 164/2026 still occupies 43-50 N from 0700 to 1200 UTC on 11 and 12 November and cancels at 121300 UTC on 12 November. 166/26 occupies 44-21 N from 0700 to 1300 UTC on 12 November and again on 13 November, cancel 131400 UTC 13 November. A master who only plots one “Romanian firing” for Friday week has under-read three numbers. Charterers who still treat the Romanian coast as a quiet alternative to Ukrainian ports now have a Monday training disc on the Neptun shelf, a two-morning avoid box on the doorstep of 43-47.59 N landfall, a two-morning prohibited box on the doorstep of Midia, a six-week unnamed piping watch west of track 1, a still-open Khoryv file on a different plot, a still-open Contship Jet container watch farther south on the Bulgarian board, a still-open Mentor unmanned-tanker file, and a still-open Akademik mile inside Bulgarian territorial sea. Deviation language that treats 167/26 as a Constanta shutdown has misread a self-cancelling training notice with a 20 km radius and a 092130 UTC kill. War-risk underwriters will ask for the centre, the 20 km radius, the 9 November day, the avoid / caution / do-not-interfere sentence, the 092130 UTC cancel, and a written statement that this notice is not 166/26, not 164/2026, not 163/2026, not Neptun Alpha’s 500 metres, not Khoryv, and not cancelled 162/2026.
The reporting split is unchanged. 167/26 does not reprint a mailbox. Dedicated 158/2026 still tells ships to report to MRCC Constanta on VHF 16 or [email protected]. The standing mine-and-drifting-object recommendation still asks ships to report mine-like objects on VHF 16 to [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]. 167/26 does not convert Friday afternoon’s training circle into a confirmed mine. It also does not authorise a master to occupy 44-02.80 N, 030-35.20 E at 0800 UTC on 9 November because “no NOTAM hit the bridge file.” Log the industry 167/26 number, the 6 November publication, the centre, the 20 km radius, the potentially-dangerous-training line, the avoid / caution / do-not-interfere sentence, the 9 November day, and the 092130 UTC 9 November cancel. Do not log Khoryv, Contship Jet, Mentor, UAV, a two-nautical-mile berth, orange buoys, a 166/26 Midia move, or a 500-metre platform rewrite that the notice does not print.
A night transit on 9 November is not a printed all-clear. The English body prints the day and a 092130 UTC cancel. It does not print 0000–0700 UTC as a safe window, and it does not print 1300–2130 UTC as a reduced watch. Give the printed day. Keep the lookout. Do not treat Constanta or Midia as closed unless the Authority or the harbour master says so. Do not linger on 44-02.80 N after 092130 UTC 9 November on the strength of this notice alone, and do not keep a 20 km halo after that cancel without a replacement ARN.
Keep the dedicated files on their own lines. ARN 166/26 remains this morning’s dedicated 12–13 November prohibited firing box at 44-21 N, 028-52 E through 131400 UTC 13 November. ARN 164/2026 remains Wednesday night’s dedicated 11–12 November avoid box at 43-50 N, 028-59 E through 121300 UTC 12 November. ARN 163/2026 remains Wednesday afternoon’s dedicated floating-piping box at 43-46.4 N, 028-35.8 E through 152159 UTC 15 December. ARN 158/2026 remains the dedicated Khoryv wreck-move at 43-49.50 N, 028-53.37 E. NAVWARN 766/26 remains the dedicated five-cable Khoryv keep-clear east of Shabla. NAVWARN 768/26 remains the dedicated Contship Jet wreck. NAVWARN 797/26 remains Thursday morning’s dedicated Mentor unmanned tanker. NAVWARN 790/26 remains Thursday morning’s dedicated Maslen Nos pair. NAVWARN 789/26 remains Akademik, one nautical mile, Bulgarian territorial sea through 30 November. NAVWARN 784/26 remains the Ahtopol tank. NAVWARN 779/26 remains the Burgas four-container watch. NAVWARN 777/26 remains cutter 331, now past 061600 UTC 6 November. ARN 123/2026 remains the separate orange-buoy works box at 43-56 N through 31 January 2027. ARN 146/2026 remains the missing port-hand buoy. ARN 162/2026 remains cancelled at 021000 UTC 2 November. The standing Neptun Alpha 500-metre berth at 44-02.85 N 030-35.25 E remains on the same page. Do not recast 6 November afternoon as a 166/26 rewrite, as a Khoryv inshore jump, as a Mentor training, as a 500-metre platform extension, or as a Romanian port closure.
What Operators Should Note
- Log 167/26 as a 9 November 20 km training circle at 44-02.80 N, 030-35.20 E, not as a reprint of this morning’s 166/26 Midia prohibited box. Directorate potentially-dangerous-training notice, published 6 November 2026. Official English on the avize-radio page. BLACK SEA. ROMANIA. POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS TRAINING EXERCISE. 9 November 2026. Circular area, radius 20 km, centred 44-02.80 N 030-35.20 E. Avoid entering, exercise caution in the vicinity, do not interfere. Cancel 092130 UTC 9 November 2026. Romanian page: 09.11.2026, raza de 20 km, cancel 23:30 local 9 November. Industry reprints and SeaLagom: 167/26. The notice names neither hull, IMO, UAV, VHF, daily hours, numeric berth nor a port closure. The Romanian map page currently labels this card ARN 166/2026; that is a list-shift, not a Midia amendment. This is not 166/26, not 164/2026, not 163/2026, not 162/2026, not 158/2026, not 123/2026, and not 797/26.
- Hold the circle against the Neptun shelf, not against Midia and not against Wednesday night’s 43-47.59 N landfall. Working radius 20 km, about 10.8 nautical miles, around 44-02.80 N, 030-35.20 E. Standing Neptun Alpha production-platform card remains 44-02.85 N 030-35.25 E, 500 metres — colour on the same page, not a 167/26 naming. Dedicated 0168/26 still lists 0137/26 against that 500-metre plot. Do not brief Friday afternoon as the platform berth became 20 km. Do not drop the 500-metre watch. Do not occupy 44-02.80 N, 030-35.20 E on 9 November. 166/26 remains 44-13 N to 44-29 N, 0700–1300 UTC on 12 and 13 November, cancel 131400 UTC 13 November. 164/2026 remains 43-45 N to 43-55 N, 0700–1200 UTC on 11 and 12 November, cancel 121300 UTC 12 November.
- Carry the 9–13 November three-product tape, then kill each notice on its own cancel. 167/26: 9 November, 20 km, cancel 092130 UTC 9 November. 164/2026: 0700–1200 UTC on 11 and 12 November, cancel 121300 UTC 12 November. 166/26: 0700–1300 UTC on 12 November and 0700–1300 UTC on 13 November, cancel 131400 UTC 13 November. Do not treat 167/26 as live all week. Do not apply 166/26’s 0700–1300 UTC hours to this circle. Do not drop 166/26 or 164/2026 because 167/26 exists. Do not keep avoiding 44-02.80 N after 092130 UTC 9 November without a replacement ARN. Do not invent a night window or a UAV line. Watch a later ARN that moves 44-02.80 N 030-35.20 E, adds a weapon class or daily hours, or extends past 092130 UTC 9 November.
- Do not invent a numeric berth outside the 20 km, and do not upgrade avoid to prohibited. 167/26 prints avoid entering, caution in the vicinity, do not interfere. 166/26 prints prohibited area to navigation. 164/2026 prints dangerous / avoid. Those are different sentences. Do not borrow 162/2026’s two nautical miles, 158/2026’s one nautical mile, or Neptun Alpha’s 500 metres onto this circle. Stay out of 20 km of 44-02.80 N, 030-35.20 E on 9 November.
- Hold Khoryv, Contship Jet, Mentor, Akademik and the standing platform berth on their own sheets. ARN 158/2026 remains the dedicated 43-49.50 N Khoryv wreck-move. NAVWARN 766/26 remains the dedicated 43-30.60 N five-cable Khoryv keep-clear. NAVWARN 768/26 remains Contship Jet at 43-07.80 N 028-45.36 E. NAVWARN 797/26 remains Mentor at 43-25.1 N 028-37.0 E. NAVWARN 789/26 remains Akademik, one nautical mile, through 30 November. NAVWARN 777/26 remains cutter 331, now past 061600 UTC 6 November. 167/26 does not reprint those hulls or those plots. Official HNHS 1338/26 Maroneia and 1339/26 Imeros unlit lights remain unused as dedicated. Official NAVAREA II 386/2026 Pointe Noire containers remain unused as dedicated.
- Keep NAVAREA III and the Pakistani firing series off this circle. Dedicated 0168/26 remains weekly group 44 through 092359 UTC 9 November and does not print 167/26; that 2359 UTC cancel is 29 minutes after 167/26’s 2130 UTC kill, not a merged all-clear. Dedicated 0169/26 is a Central Mediterranean survey. Dedicated 431/26 remains this morning’s Fujairah jack-up. Dedicated 424/26 cancelled at 040700 UTC 4 November. Dedicated 414/26 remains the November Pakistan series around 24 N. Sightings and mine-like objects still go to MRCC Constanta on VHF 16 or [email protected], and to the CSO. Watch a later ARN that moves the centre — not a 166/26 reprint, not a 500-metre platform rewrite, and not a closed Constanta.
Regulas Shipping will keep lining Friday afternoon’s ARN 167/26 20 km training circle at 44-02.80 N, 030-35.20 E against this morning’s dedicated 166/26 prohibited firing box at 44-21 N, 028-52 E and Wednesday night’s dedicated 164/2026 avoid box at 43-50 N so operators can treat 9, 11, 12 and 13 November as three numbered products, not as a single Romanian firing or a Constanta port closure.
