13 containers adrift vicinity 35-13.4N 008-42.4W at 161315Z nov
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 2154/03
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2003-11-23 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 379/03 161503Z NOV 03. Issued 2003-11-16 15:55Z. 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 35.223, -8.707. 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
- 2003-11-16 15:55Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA II 379/03 161503Z NOV 03
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 35.223, -8.707
- containers
- 13
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. 13 CONTAINERS ADRIFT VICINITY 35-13.4N 008-42.4W AT 161315Z NOV. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 23 NOV.
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
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.
- Four containers adrift in vicinity 33-17N 009-05W at 120830Z feb2020-02-12
- Two containers adrift in vicinity 35-03.6N 008-04.5W at 150515Z dec2016-12-15
- Ten containers adrift vicinity 35-01N 007-29W at 232015Z nov2006-11-24
- Container adrift in area bound by 35-38.00N 006-41.10W, 35-35.25N 006-33.10W, 35-01.60N 006-59.80W,…2006-10-27
- Two containers adrift vicinity 34-30.2N 008-14.3W at 181655Z feb2006-02-18
- Three containers adrift vicinity 34-32N 008-25W at 180130Z feb2006-02-18
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 09:30Z; 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.