Containers

Container adrift vicinity 35-00N 012-37E at 051515Z apr

Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin · HYDROLANT 569/04

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2004-04-13 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) · MARISICILIA 98/04 051920B APR 04. Issued 2004-04-06 07:20Z. 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: Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin. The parsed report position is 35.000, 12.617. 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 Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin →

issued: 2004-04-06 07:20Z
status: Archived notice
authority: MARISICILIA 98/04 051920B APR 04
issued by: MARISICILIA
sea: Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
position: 35.000, 12.617
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 35-00N 012-37E
   AT 051515Z APR.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 13 APR.

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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · drifting containers

10 within 180 nm since 2002 · 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 33-47.9N 011-51.1E2019-07-08
Container adrift in vicinity 37-22.1N 011-32.0E2017-11-23
30 containers adrift vicinity 37-24.3N 010-38.4E2015-02-04
Container adrift vicinity 36-34.2N 011-20.9E at 281300Z may2012-05-29
Container adrift vicinity 33-51.0N 011-06.2E at 221918Z may2012-05-23
Container adrift vicinity 36-26.4N 014-17.9E at 010730Z nov2009-11-03

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 2026-10-01 18:15Z; 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.