Three containers adrift vicinity 34-32N 008-25W at 180130Z feb
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 344/06
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2006-02-25 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) · NAVAREA II 63/06 180347Z FEB 06.. Issued 2006-02-18 06:51Z. 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 Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 34.533, -8.417. 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
These reports were linked by category and sea, with positions within 30 nautical miles and issue dates within 30 days of another report's recorded in-force span. Links can extend through other members, so the full group can cover a larger area or period. Proximity does not confirm that they describe one incident.
- HYDROLANT 344/06 · this notice2006-02-18 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 351/062006-02-18 · Archived notice
Current notices and reporting history in the North Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2006-02-18 06:51Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA II 63/06 180347Z FEB 06.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 34.533, -8.417
- containers
- 3
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. THREE CONTAINERS ADRIFT VICINITY 34-32N 008-25W AT 180130Z FEB. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 25 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.
- 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
10 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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 33-17N 009-05W at 120830Z feb2020-02-12
- Two containers adrift in vicinity 35-03.6N 008-04.5W at 150515Z dec2016-12-15
- Ten containers adrift vicinity 35-01N 007-29W at 232015Z nov2006-11-24
- Container adrift in area bound by 35-38.00N 006-41.10W, 35-35.25N 006-33.10W, 35-01.60N 006-59.80W,…2006-10-27
- Two containers adrift vicinity 34-30.2N 008-14.3W at 181655Z feb2006-02-18
- 13 containers adrift vicinity 35-13.4N 008-42.4W at 161315Z nov2003-11-16
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
- Derelict vessel adriftDerelicts · 62.9 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 drifting containers listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 06:45Z; 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.