Fishing gear, marked by buoys and abandoned, is in the Irish Sea off Wales at 53-30.10N 004-12.70W.
Irish Sea and St. George's Channel · HYDROLANT 852/24
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-08-14 18:10Z
This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · WZ 295/24 221101Z APR 24.. Issued 2024-04-22 11:27Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:50Z. 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 53.502, -4.212. 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
- 2024-04-22 11:27Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- authority
- WZ 295/24 221101Z APR 24.
- issued by
- WZ
- sea
- Irish Sea and St. George's Channel
- position
- 53.502, -4.212
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
IRISH SEA. WALES. DNC 20. FISHING GEAR, MARKED BY BUOYS, ABANDONED IN 53-30.10N 004-12.70W.
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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · other warnings
167 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.
- 14 meter long tree adrift in vicinity 53-39.90N 006-02.80W at 150840Z aug2023-08-15
- 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 2026-10-01 09:39Z; 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.