Containers adrift vicinity: a. 50-12N 012-53W
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 2031/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-09-06 13:27Z
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 I 253/12 031234Z SEP 12.. Issued 2012-09-03 13:28Z. 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 50.123, -12.280. 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
- 2012-09-03 13:28Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2012-09-06 13:27Z
- authority
- NAVAREA I 253/12 031234Z SEP 12.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA I · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 50.123, -12.280
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. CELTIC SEA. 1. CONTAINERS ADRIFT VICINITY: A. 50-12N 012-53W. B. 49-52N 013-31W. C. 50-24N 011-49W. D. 50-15N 011-25W. 2. LIFEBOAT ADRIFT VICINITY 49-54N 011-46W AT 021625Z SEP. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 061327Z SEP 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.
- 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
11 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.
- Ten containers adrift in vicinity 50-15.0N 007-47.1W at 110435Z feb2020-02-11
- Container adrift in 49-22.8N 010-56.0W at 181900Z may2014-05-19
- Container adrift in 48-43N 012-27W at 071050Z sep2012-09-07
- Containers adrift at 061800Z sep in: a. 50-29N 012-13W b. 50-02N 013-22W c. 49-56N 014-32W2012-09-07
- Containers adrift at 0311415Z sep in: a. 49-52N 012-24W2012-08-31
- Numerous containers adrift vicinity 47-52.4N 009-37.0W at 081950Z aug2012-08-09
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 09:46Z; 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.