Two containers adrift in 54-33.5N 004-52.9W at 040005Z dec
Irish Sea and St. George's Channel · HYDROLANT 3077/01
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2001-12-11 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) · WZ 2276/01 040057Z DEC 01. Issued 2001-12-04 03:34Z. 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
- Irish Sea and St. George's Channel. The parsed report position is 54.558, -4.882. 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 Irish Sea and St. George's Channel →
- issued
- 2001-12-04 03:34Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- WZ 2276/01 040057Z DEC 01
- issued by
- WZ
- sea
- Irish Sea and St. George's Channel
- position
- 54.558, -4.882
- 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 IN 54-33.5N 004-52.9W AT 040005Z DEC. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 11 DEC.
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
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.
- Container adrift in vicinity 53-10N 006-02W at 030640Z may2022-05-03
- Containers adrift in area within three miles of trackline joining 51-41.4N 005-50.9W, 51-32.8N 005-31.0W at…2019-12-09
- 11 containers adrift in 51-41.4N 005-50.9W at 082330Z dec2019-12-09
- 12 containers adrift in 51-41.4N 005-50.9W at 082330Z dec2019-12-09
- Four containers adrift in 54-53.6N 000-07.3W at 312120Z jan2015-01-31
- 21 containers adrift vicinity of trackline between 51-47N 166-55E and 53-01N 179-53W2013-11-17
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 13:14Z; 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.