Three containers, red and black, adrift in vicinity 48-32.82N 006-08.37W
Celtic Sea · HYDROLANT 492/24
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2024-03-13 13:30Z
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) · AVURNAV BREST 71/24 101220Z MAR 24.. Issued 2024-03-10 13:37Z. 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
- Celtic Sea. The parsed report position is 48.547, -6.139. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2024-03-10 13:37Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2024-03-13 13:30Z
- authority
- AVURNAV BREST 71/24 101220Z MAR 24.
- issued by
- AVURNAV BREST
- sea
- Celtic Sea
- position
- 48.547, -6.139
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CELTIC SEA. FRANCE. DNC 19. 1. THREE CONTAINERS, RED AND BLACK, ADRIFT IN VICINITY 48-32.82N 006-08.37W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 131330Z 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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · other warnings
164 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.
- Fishing gear, marked by buoys, abandoned in 50-12.57N 004-36.15W2024-01-02
- Cgoc falmouth mf dsc and r/t services at scilly isle site 49-55.7N 006-18.2W unreliable2023-11-25
- Submerged orange object in vicinity 47-02.00N 003-17.00W2023-10-26
- Cgoc falmouth mf r/t services at scilly isle site in 49-55.70N 006-18.20W at reduced power2023-07-18
- Ile vierge light 48-38.33N 004-34.04W at reduced intensity2023-01-23
- Underwater exercises 190830Z to 191730Z nov in area within 40 miles of 46-00.00N 006-40.00W2022-11-17
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
23 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 10:48Z; source collection times vary.
Other
Everything the classifier did not place elsewhere. All current other warnings →
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.