Two containers adrift vicinity 37-55N 009-40W at 311830Z oct
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 2322/99
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 1999-11-08 08:10Z
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 327/99 010630Z NOV 1999. Issued 1999-11-01 08:10Z. 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 37.917, -9.667. 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 2322/99 · this notice1999-11-01 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 2335/991999-11-03 · Archived notice
Current notices and reporting history in the North Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 1999-11-01 08:10Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 1999-11-08 08:10Z
- authority
- NAVAREA II 327/99 010630Z NOV 1999
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 37.917, -9.667
- containers
- 2
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. TWO CONTAINERS ADRIFT VICINITY 37-55N 009-40W AT 311830Z OCT. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 080810Z 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
6 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.
- Container adrift vicinity 37-27N 012-00W at 241050Z mar2009-03-24
- 13 containers adrift vicinity 35-13.4N 008-42.4W at 161315Z nov2003-11-16
- 20 meter container adrift vicinity 36-00N 007-26W at 162030Z may2000-05-17
- Container adrift vicinity 40-38N 009-55W at 031725Z jan2000-01-03
- Container adrift vicinity 37-41N 009-32W at 030826Z nov1999-11-03
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 05:33Z; 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.