Container adrift vicinity 43-43N 009-55E
Tyrrhenian Sea · HYDROLANT 202/02
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2002-02-04 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) · MARIDIPART LA SPEZIA 28/02 271900Z JAN 02. Issued 2002-01-28 00:15Z. 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
- Tyrrhenian Sea. The parsed report position is 43.717, 9.917. 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 Tyrrhenian Sea →
- issued
- 2002-01-28 00:15Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MARIDIPART LA SPEZIA 28/02 271900Z JAN 02
- issued by
- MARIDIPART LA SPEZIA
- sea
- Tyrrhenian Sea
- position
- 43.717, 9.917
- containers
- 1
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. CONTAINER ADRIFT VICINITY 43-43N 009-55E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 04 FEB.
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
12 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.
- Two containers adrift in vicinity 41-03.9N 010-36.0E at 240600Z feb2019-02-24
- Container adrift vicinity 43-48.8N 009-18.6E at 061000Z feb2003-02-06
- Two containers adrift vicinity 43-41.7N 009-44.9E at 021440Z feb2003-02-02
- Containers adrift at 300900Z jan in: a. 43-26N 009-36E2003-01-30
- Containers adrift between 43-45N 009-08E and 43-27N 009-15E at 210200Z feb2002-02-22
- Containers adrift between 43-55N 009-08E and 43-27N 009-15E at 210200Z feb2002-02-21
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 14:14Z; 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.