14 meter long tree adrift in vicinity 53-39.90N 006-02.80W at 150840Z aug
Irish Sea and St. George's Channel · HYDROLANT 1807/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-08-18 08:40Z
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) · WZ 608/23 151000Z AUG 23.. Issued 2023-08-15 10:18Z. 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
- Irish Sea and St. George's Channel. The parsed report position is 53.665, -6.047. 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 Irish Sea and St. George's Channel →
- issued
- 2023-08-15 10:18Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-08-18 08:40Z
- authority
- WZ 608/23 151000Z AUG 23.
- issued by
- WZ
- sea
- Irish Sea and St. George's Channel
- position
- 53.665, -6.047
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
IRISH SEA. IRELAND. DNC 19. 1. 14 METER LONG TREE ADRIFT IN VICINITY 53-39.90N 006-02.80W AT 150840Z AUG. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 180840Z AUG 23.
Reading this warning
- DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
- A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
- Adrift
- Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
- 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.
- 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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · other warnings
140 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.
- Fishing gear, marked by buoys, abandoned in 53-30.10N 004-12.70W2024-04-22
- Large wooden objects reported adrift in vicinity 51-29.30N 007-24.20W at 261629Z jun2023-06-26
- Coningbeg buoy 52-03.20N 006-38.60W unreliable2023-05-14
- Lucifer buoy 52-17.0N 006-12.7W AIS inoperative2022-03-13
- Fishing gear, marked by two buoys, abandoned in vicinity 52-03.6N 006-34.2W2021-10-05
- Gpa jamming exercises 1400Z to 1600Z daily 23 thru 25 mar in area within 30 miles of 52-08.5N 004-34.3W2021-03-23
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
23 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 04:05Z; source collection times vary.
Other
Everything the classifier did not place elsewhere. All current other warnings →
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.