Fishing nets adrift in 53-28.03N 005-53.40W
Irish Sea and St. George's Channel · HYDROLANT 504/24
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2024-03-15 00:37Z
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 203/24 120037Z MAR 24.. Issued 2024-03-12 00:40Z. 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 53.467, -5.890. 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
- Cancel HYDROLANT 504/24 and this msglater cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Irish Sea and St. George's Channel →
- issued
- 2024-03-12 00:40Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2024-03-15 00:37Z
- authority
- WZ 203/24 120037Z MAR 24.
- issued by
- WZ
- sea
- Irish Sea and St. George's Channel
- position
- 53.467, -5.890
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
IRISH SEA. IRELAND. DNC 20. 1. FISHING NETS ADRIFT IN 53-28.03N 005-53.40W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 150037Z MAR 24.
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.
- Fish aggregating device (FAD)
- Floating rafts, nets and lines used by fishing fleets — hazards to propellers when they are adrift or unlit.
- 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.
- 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 · drifting objects
19 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.
- Submerged object in vicinity 55-44.90N 005-19.70W2023-01-24
- Submerged object in vicinity 55-45.1N 005-19.0W2022-03-26
- 20 meter fishing net adrift in vicinity 51-49.05N 007-49.80W at 121820Z oct2021-10-13
- Fishing gear adrift in 51-24.9N 007-25.5W at 201219Z jul2021-07-21
- Fishing nets adrift at 222015Z may in: a. 51-23.0N 007-01.3W2019-05-23
- Submerged object in vicinity 51-04.9N 007-51.2W2018-06-26
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
3 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 06:12Z; source collection times vary.
Debris
Logs, buoys, mooring gear and other objects adrift. All current drifting objects →
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.