Numerous containers adrift in area between 48-40N 50-20N and 013-20W 012-00W
Eastern North Atlantic · Celtic Sea · HYDROLANT 2079/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-09-09 14:41Z
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 262/12 072101Z SEP 12.. Issued 2012-09-07 21:47Z. 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
- Eastern North Atlantic · Celtic Sea. No usable coordinates were parsed; a location-based nearby search is unavailable. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Container adrift in 48-43N 012-27W at 071050Z sepcancelled by this notice
- Numerous containers adrift in area between 48-40N 51-30N and 013-20W 011-00Wlater 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 2075/122012-09-07 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 2079/12 · this notice2012-09-07 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 2090/122012-09-09 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2012-09-07 21:47Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2012-09-10 21:45Z
- authority
- NAVAREA I 262/12 072101Z SEP 12.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA I · named as the source of this relay
- 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. NUMEROUS CONTAINERS ADRIFT IN AREA BETWEEN 48-40N 50-20N AND 013-20W 012-00W. 2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 2075/12. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 102145Z 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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROLANT
- The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.
- 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.
Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm
No parsed position is available for this comparison.
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 drifting containers listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 02:28Z; 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.