14 containers adrift in 38-43.18N 004-41.64E
Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin · HYDROLANT 303/15
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2015-02-08 16:12Z
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 64/15 051357Z FEB 15.. Issued 2015-02-05 16:12Z. 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 38.720, 4.694. 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
- 2015-02-05 16:12Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2015-02-08 16:12Z
- authority
- NAVAREA III 64/15 051357Z FEB 15.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin
- position
- 38.720, 4.694
- containers
- 14
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA. DNC 08. 1. 14 CONTAINERS ADRIFT IN 38-43.18N 004-41.64E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 081612Z FEB 15.
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.
Collected reports in this area · drifting containers
15 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.
- Four containers adrift in vicinity 37-14N 003-14E2021-11-07
- 14 containers adrift in vicinity 37-04N 006-43E at 140540Z mar2019-03-14
- Container adrift in vicinity 39-41N 005-53E at 310835Z jul 2. cancel this msg 031433Z aug 182018-07-31
- Containers adrift in vicinity: a. 39-42.18N 005-42.02E at 301617Z jul2018-07-31
- 12 containers adrift in vicinity 37-27N 007-10E at 061600Z feb2017-02-07
- Containers adrift vicinity 37-36N 006-07E2016-01-18
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 drifting containers listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 03:04Z; 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.