40 foot container adrift in vicinity 51-45.2N 002-30.9E at 071524Z feb
North Sea · HYDROLANT 286/99
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 1999-02-09 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). Issued 1999-02-07 16:35Z. 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 Sea. The parsed report position is 51.753, 2.515. 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
- issued
- 1999-02-07 16:35Z
- status
- Archived notice
- sea
- North Sea
- position
- 51.753, 2.515
- containers
- 1
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · 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.
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.
Collected reports in this area · drifting containers
39 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 in vicinity 51-07.8N 001-32.0E at 230511Z mar2022-03-23
- Three containers adrift in vicinity 53-24.9N 000-43.3E2018-11-20
- Container adrift in vicinity 51-04.6N 001-11.6E at 200600Z nov2016-11-20
- 12 containers adrift vicinity 50-48.4N 001-23.9E at 282145Z nov2015-11-29
- Container adrift vicinity 50-08.2N 001-07.5W at 201700Z sep2015-09-20
- Container adrift vicinity 50-29.8N 000-24.9W at 051025Z jun2014-06-05
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 2026-10-03 22:48Z; 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.