Fishing gear marked by orange and yellow floats adrift in 52-25.86N 005-23.17W
Irish Sea and St. George's Channel · HYDROLANT 656/05
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2005-04-09 20:57Z
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 602/05 091813Z APR 05.. Issued 2005-04-09 18:39Z. 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
- Irish Sea and St. George's Channel. The parsed report position is 52.431, -5.386. 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
- Isola santa maria light 41-17.4N 009-23.1E unlitlater cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Irish Sea and St. George's Channel →
- issued
- 2005-04-09 18:39Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- WZ 602/05 091813Z APR 05.
- issued by
- WZ
- sea
- Irish Sea and St. George's Channel
- position
- 52.431, -5.386
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. FISHING GEAR MARKED BY ORANGE AND YELLOW FLOATS ADRIFT IN 52-25.86N 005-23.17W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 16 APR.
Reading this warning
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · drifting objects
64 within 180 nm since 2001 · 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 nets adrift in 53-28.03N 005-53.40W2024-03-12
- Six eight meter long objects adrift in 49-53.00N 003-01.00W at 041944Z dec2023-12-04
- Fishing gear, marked by buoys, abandoned and adrift in area bound by 50-03.50N 003-31.00W, 50-02.90N…2023-07-22
- Fishing gear, marked by buoys, adrift in area bound by 50-03.50N 003-31.00W, 50-02.90N 003-32.00W, 50-02.90N…2023-06-10
- Debris from F/V in vicinity 50-02.20N 005-43.70W2023-02-14
- 20 meter fishing net adrift in vicinity 51-49.05N 007-49.80W at 121820Z oct2021-10-13
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
2 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 01:33Z; 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.