Three containers adrift vicinity 45-17N 009-08W at 180300Z feb
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 347/06
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 64/06 180844Z FEB 06.. Issued 2006-02-18 10:19Z. 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 45.283, -9.133. 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
- Cancel HYDROLANT 347/06(63) dtg 021509Z mar, msg promulgated in errorlater cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the North Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2006-02-18 10:19Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA II 64/06 180844Z FEB 06.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 45.283, -9.133
- 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 45-17N 009-08W AT 180300Z 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
110 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.
- 15 containers adrift in 47-20.00N 007-35.00W2024-04-07
- Four 40 foot containers adrift in vicinity 43-47.59N 006-11.40W at 020600 apr2023-04-04
- Four containers adrift at 281300Z nov in vicinity: a. 43-58.50N 009-14.70W2022-11-29
- Containers adrift at 282130Z sep in: a. 43-22.00N 009-37.00W2022-09-29
- Four containers adrift in vicinity of trackline joining 47-01N 006-56W, 47-52N 006-14W2021-12-11
- Four containers adrift in vicinity 46-54N 007-50W at 040720Z nov2019-11-04
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 2026-09-28 10:01Z; 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.