Container adrift in vicinity 53-10N 006-02W at 030640Z may
Irish Sea and St. George's Channel · HYDROLANT 1201/22
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2022-05-06 08:06Z
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 520/22 030801Z MAY 22.. Issued 2022-05-03 08:36Z. 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 53.167, -6.033. 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
- 2022-05-03 08:36Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2022-05-06 08:06Z
- authority
- WZ 520/22 030801Z MAY 22.
- issued by
- WZ
- sea
- Irish Sea and St. George's Channel
- position
- 53.167, -6.033
- containers
- 1
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
IRISH SEA. IRELAND. DNC 19. 1. CONTAINER ADRIFT IN VICINITY 53-10N 006-02W AT 030640Z MAY. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 060806Z MAY 22.
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.
- Lost containers
- Shipping containers lost overboard, reported floating or semi-submerged, often in groups after a single incident.
- 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.
- 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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · drifting containers
30 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.
- Container adrift in 51-30N 004-00W at 291230Z oct2020-10-29
- Container adrift in 51-30N 004-00W at 291230Z oct2020-10-29
- Eight containers adrift at 261600Z oct in vicinity of trackline joining 51-06N 004-31W, 51-27N 003-48W2020-10-26
- Eight containers adrift at 261300Z oct in vicinity of trackline joining 50-32N 005-32W, 51-18N 004-09W2020-10-26
- Eight containers adrift at 251200Z oct in vicinity of trackline joining 50-32N 005-32W, 51-05N 004-53W,…2020-10-25
- Eight containers adrift at 241430Z oct in vicinity of trackline joining 50-32N 005-32W, 51-05N 004-53W2020-10-24
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
0 drifting containers listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 07:51Z; source collection times vary.
Containers
Shipping containers lost overboard and reported adrift or semi-submerged. All current drifting containers →
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.