Container adrift vicinity 52-20.7N 002-22.6E at 231703Z feb
North Sea · HYDROLANT 374/05
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 378/05 231722Z FEB 05.. Issued 2005-02-23 18:18Z. 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 52.345, 2.377. 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
- Container adrift vicinity 52-15.3N 002-23.1E at 231149Z febcancelled by this notice
- Container adrift vicinity 52-03.9N 002-14.0E at 241142Z feblater cancellation notice
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 371/052005-02-23 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 373/052005-02-23 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 374/05 · this notice2005-02-23 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 378/052005-02-24 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 383/052005-02-25 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2005-02-23 18:18Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- WZ 378/05 231722Z FEB 05.
- issued by
- WZ
- sea
- North Sea
- position
- 52.345, 2.377
- 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 VICINITY 52-20.7N 002-22.6E AT 231703Z FEB. 2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 373/05. 3. 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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROLANT
- The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.
- 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
36 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 01:46Z; 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.