Container adrift in 52-24.7N 002-29.4E at 230705Z feb
North Sea · HYDROLANT 371/05
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2005-03-02 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 373/05 230756Z FEB 05.. Issued 2005-02-23 10:55Z. 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 52.412, 2.490. 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 369/052005-02-23 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 371/05 · this notice2005-02-23 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 373/052005-02-23 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 374/052005-02-23 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 378/052005-02-24 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 383/052005-02-25 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2005-02-23 10:55Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- WZ 373/05 230756Z FEB 05.
- issued by
- WZ
- sea
- North Sea
- position
- 52.412, 2.490
- containers
- 1
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. CONTAINER ADRIFT IN 52-24.7N 002-29.4E AT 230705Z FEB. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 02 MAR.
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
34 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
- Four containers adrift in 54-53.6N 000-07.3W at 312120Z jan2015-01-31
- 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 2026-09-25 01:52Z; 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.