Containers

Container adrift vicinity 38-40.9N 015-28.1E at 270933Z mar

Tyrrhenian Sea · HYDROLANT 693/12

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2012-03-31 14:20Z

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 III 117/12 281235Z MAR 12.. Issued 2012-03-28 14:22Z. 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: Tyrrhenian Sea. The parsed report position is 38.682, 15.468. 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 Tyrrhenian Sea →

issued: 2012-03-28 14:22Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2012-03-31 14:20Z
authority: NAVAREA III 117/12 281235Z MAR 12.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
sea: Tyrrhenian Sea
position: 38.682, 15.468
containers: 1
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

TYHRRENIAN SEA.
1. CONTAINER ADRIFT VICINITY 38-40.9N 015-28.1E
   AT 270933Z MAR.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 311420Z 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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · drifting containers

17 within 180 nm since 2001 · 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 vicinity 36-20.5N 017-24.6E at 07 feb2012-02-07
Container adrift vicinity 36-26.4N 014-17.9E at 010730Z nov2009-11-03
Container adrift vicinity 38-25N 015-11E at 062100Z jul2006-07-06
Container adrift vicinity 38-43.4N 014-50.9E2006-06-24
Container adrift vicinity 38-35.95N 015-44.51E at 28 feb2006-03-02
Container adrift in 39-45.4N 018-59.1E at 121230Z may2004-05-12

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 2026-10-01 23:54Z; 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.