Four containers adrift vicinity 35-14.40N 016-41.42W at 051740Z dec
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 2182/06
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2006-12-13 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 400/06 061045Z DEC 06.. Issued 2006-12-06 11:09Z. 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 35.240, -16.690. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
These reports were linked by category and sea, with positions within 30 nautical miles and issue dates within 30 days of another report's recorded in-force span. Links can extend through other members, so the full group can cover a larger area or period. Proximity does not confirm that they describe one incident.
- HYDROLANT 2166/062006-12-04 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 2182/06 · this notice2006-12-06 · Archived notice
Current notices and reporting history in the North Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2006-12-06 11:09Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA II 400/06 061045Z DEC 06.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 35.240, -16.690
- containers
- 4
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. FOUR CONTAINERS ADRIFT VICINITY 35-14.40N 016-41.42W AT 051740Z DEC. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 13 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.
- 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.
- Container adrift in vicinity 36-54.64N 014-36.77W at 222050Z apr2023-04-22
- Arquipelago de madeira2011-10-07
- Container adrift vicinity 33-03.9N 017-47.5W at 051415Z mar2007-03-05
- Two containers adrift vicinity 36-02.5N 018-00.4W at 051715Z jan2007-01-06
- Container adrift vicinity 33-10.7N 017-19.8W at 151133Z dec2006-12-15
- Three containers adrift vicinity 35-29N 016-50W at 041125Z dec2006-12-04
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 06:13Z; 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.