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.

Permitted as from:

17/05/2004

Not to be used after:

01/01/2013

Registrant:

IMO Circ. 236

Physical link:

AIS

Message number (0=VDES-VDE):

DAC or VPFI:

FI / Message ID:

State:

deprecated

State link:

Number of persons on board [1]

Number of slots (max):

Last modified:

29/01/2021 - 23:18

Details:

Parameter	No. of bits	Description
Message ID	6	Identifier for Message 6 always 6
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