Three containers adrift vicinity 32-26.6N 012-53.1W
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 2007/07
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2007-12-11 00:00Z
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 438/07 040952Z DEC 07.. Issued 2007-12-04 10:36Z. 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
- North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 32.443, -12.885. 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 North Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2007-12-04 10:36Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA II 438/07 040952Z DEC 07.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 32.443, -12.885
- containers
- 3
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. THREE CONTAINERS ADRIFT VICINITY 32-26.6N 012-53.1W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 11 DEC.
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.
Collected reports in this area · drifting containers
9 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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.
- Two containers adrift vicinity 30-30N 013-45W at 190915Z oct2001-10-19
- Container adrift in 31-10N 011-20W at 101830Z feb2001-02-10
- Container adrift vicinity 34-03N 010-33W at 131600Z jan2001-01-14
- Container adrift vicinity 34-03N 010-33W at 131600Z jan2001-01-14
- Several containers adrift vicinity 30-33N 012-04W2000-06-08
- 17 containers adrift vicinity 30-54N 012-01W at 060930Z jun2000-06-06
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 2026-09-27 23:11Z; 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.