Number of persons on board

Introduction/Additional information:

This message should be used by a ship to report the number of persons on board, e.g. on request by a competent authority.
Attributes: addressed, acknowledgement required.

Registrant:
IMO Circ. 236
Message number:
6
DAC:
1
FI:
16
State:
deprecated
Number of slots (max):
1
Permitted as from:
17/05/2004
Not to be used after:
01/01/2013
Details:

 

 Parameter  No. of bits  Description
 Message ID 6  Identifier for Message 86
always 86
 Repeat Indicator 2  Used by the repeater to indicate how many times a
 message has been repeated.
 Source ID 30  Name of source station
 Spare 2  Not used. Should be set to zero.
 IAI 16  DAC = 001
FI =16
 Number of Persons 13  Current number of persons on-board, including crew members:
0.8191; default = 0 = not available;  8191 = 8191 or more
 Spare 3  Not used. Should be set to zero.
 Total Number of Bits 72  This message uses one slot