Numerous 13 meter long containers, blue and orange color, adrift in vicinity 43-45.00N 006-30.00W at 311145Z…
Bay of Biscay · HYDROLANT 701/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-04-03 16:15Z
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 96/23 010610Z APR 23.. Issued 2023-04-01 06:15Z. 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 43.750, -6.500. 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
- 2023-04-01 06:15Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-04-03 16:15Z
- authority
- NAVAREA II 96/23 010610Z APR 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Bay of Biscay
- position
- 43.750, -6.500
- 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. NUMEROUS 13 METER LONG CONTAINERS, BLUE AND ORANGE COLOR, ADRIFT IN VICINITY 43-45.00N 006-30.00W AT 311145Z MAR. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 031615Z APR 23.
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 · other warnings
14 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.
- Underwater exercises 190830Z to 191730Z nov in area within 40 miles of 46-00.00N 006-40.00W2022-11-17
- 24 meter F/V rachel jay requesting assistance in 46-26.5N 006-25.20W2019-12-22
- Cabo torinana light 43-03.2N 009-17.9W at reduced intensity2019-01-13
- Green flare sighted in vicinity 45-30N 006-05W2018-04-16
- S/V saida II requesting assistance in 45-22.03N 003-32.40W2016-08-27
- Red flare sighted in 44-04N 003-36W at 201920Z sep2015-09-20
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 2026-10-02 02:16Z; 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.