Containers

40 foot container adrift in vicinity 51-45.2N 002-30.9E at 071524Z feb

HYDROLANT 286/99

issued: 1999-02-07 16:35Z
status: cancelled 1999-02-09 00:00Z (archive)
sea: North Sea
position: 51.753, 2.515
containers: 1
source: nga_json · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

40 FOOT CONTAINER ADRIFT IN VICINITY 51-45.2N 002-30.9E
AT 071524Z FEB.

This area · drifting containers

39 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 in force now

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Season · when drifting containers happen here

month of issue, all years in the archive

Timeline

Gunnery exercises 0800Z to 1000Z, 1600Z to 1830Z and 1900Z to 2100Z daily 10 and 11 feb in areas bound by:…cancelled by · 1999-02-09

Nearby now · within 120 nm

Nothing else in force within 120 nm.

Worldwide now

0 drifting containers in force · see all

Containers

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