Containers

Four containers adrift in vicinity 37-14N 003-14E

Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin · HYDROLANT 2753/21

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2021-11-10 16:09Z

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 III 810/21 071556Z NOV 21.. Issued 2021-11-07 16:09Z. 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: Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin. The parsed report position is 37.233, 3.233. 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 Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin →

issued: 2021-11-07 16:09Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2021-11-10 16:09Z
authority: NAVAREA III 810/21 071556Z NOV 21.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
sea: Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin
position: 37.233, 3.233
containers: 4
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
ALGERIA.
DNC 08.
1. FOUR CONTAINERS ADRIFT IN VICINITY
   37-14N 003-14E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 101609Z NOV 21.

Reading this warning

DNC (Digital Nautical Chart): A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
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.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · drifting containers

11 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.

14 containers adrift in vicinity 37-04N 006-43E at 140540Z mar2019-03-14
Containers adrift vicinity 37-36N 006-07E2016-01-18
14 containers adrift in 38-43.18N 004-41.64E2015-02-05
Container adrift in 37-14.6N 004-30.7E at 140815Z nov2007-11-15
Container adrift in 37-08N 006-00E at 021618Z mar2005-03-02
Two containers adrift vicinity 36-51N 005-11E at 141709Z feb2005-02-14

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

Hazardous operations 290001Z to 302359Z oct in area bound by 38-30.60N 000-30.80E, 38-35.50N 000-46.40E,…Exercises · 114.7 nm
Drifting target shooting exercise from 290001 to 292359 UTC oct 26 or 300001 to 302359 UTC oct 26Other · 114.7 nm
Cable operations by MV maasvliet (IMO-9996915) days 281200 UTC sep 26 until further notice in the segments:…Cable ops · 118.3 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 drifting containers listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 09:28Z; 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.