Numerous containers adrift vicinity 47-41.5N 008-56.7W
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 1820/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-08-09 04:50Z
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) · NAVAREA II 256/12 080752Z AUG 12.. Issued 2012-08-08 10:38Z. 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
- North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 47.692, -8.945. 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
- Numerous containers adrift vicinity 47-52.4N 009-37.0W at 081950Z auglater cancellation notice
These messages are connected by recorded cancellation references. The links establish relationships between notices; they do not by themselves confirm a single object, a continuous track, or recovery.
- HYDROLANT 1820/12 · this notice2012-08-08 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 1825/122012-08-09 · Archived notice
Current notices and reporting history in the North Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2012-08-08 10:38Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2012-08-11 10:40Z
- authority
- NAVAREA II 256/12 080752Z AUG 12.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 47.692, -8.945
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. 1. NUMEROUS CONTAINERS ADRIFT VICINITY 47-41.5N 008-56.7W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 111040Z AUG 12.
Reading this warning
- 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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · drifting containers
159 within 180 nm since 1997 · 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.
- 15 containers adrift in 47-20.00N 007-35.00W2024-04-07
- Container adrift in vicinity 47-52.20N 005-43.10W at 020234Z jun2023-06-02
- Three containers adrift in vicinity 48-20.00N 005-35.00W at 290800Z dec2022-12-29
- Two containers adrift in vicinity 48-19.00N 005-35.00W at 290305Z dec2022-12-29
- Two containers adrift in 49-03.7N 005-02.1W2022-02-17
- Four containers adrift in vicinity of trackline joining 49-04.6N 005-31.8W, 49-03.7N 005-39.9W2022-02-16
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 2026-09-28 16:18Z; 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.