Container adrift in 43-37.0N 005-31.0W at 071038Z mar
Bay of Biscay · HYDROLANT 474/24
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2024-03-10 19:54Z
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 66/24 071955Z MAR 24.. Issued 2024-03-07 20:27Z. 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
- Bay of Biscay. The parsed report position is 43.617, -5.517. 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 Bay of Biscay →
- issued
- 2024-03-07 20:27Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2024-03-10 19:54Z
- authority
- NAVAREA II 66/24 071955Z MAR 24.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Bay of Biscay
- position
- 43.617, -5.517
- containers
- 1
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
BAY OF BISCAY. SPAIN. DNC 08. 1. CONTAINER ADRIFT IN 43-37.0N 005-31.0W AT 071038Z MAR. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 101954Z MAR 24.
Reading this warning
- DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
- A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
- 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
59 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.
- Thirteen container adrift in 43-34.00N 004-43.00W2024-03-02
- Six containers adrift in 43-34.10N 004-43.10W at 010001Z mar2024-03-02
- 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
- 14 grey and red containers adrift in vicinity 46-04N 005-46W at 121630Z mar2019-03-12
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 06:17Z; 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.