Containers

40 foot blue container adrift in vicinity 37-33.7N 019-08.2E at 171445Z mar

Ionian Sea · HYDROLANT 861/19

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2019-03-20 16:26Z

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 318/19 171609Z MAR 19.. Issued 2019-03-17 16:26Z. 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: Ionian Sea. The parsed report position is 37.562, 19.137. 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 Ionian Sea →

issued: 2019-03-17 16:26Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2019-03-20 16:26Z
authority: NAVAREA III 318/19 171609Z MAR 19.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
sea: Ionian Sea
position: 37.562, 19.137
containers: 1
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

IONIAN SEA.
GREECE.
DNC 09.
1. 40 FOOT BLUE CONTAINER ADRIFT IN VICINITY
   37-33.7N 019-08.2E AT 171445Z MAR.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 201626Z MAR 19.

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.

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Collected reports in this area · drifting containers

14 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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.

Containers adrift vicinity 35-32.1N 018-27.3E at 021350Z mar2015-03-02
Container adrift vicinity 36-20.5N 017-24.6E at 07 feb2012-02-07
Container adrift in 36-18.2N 018-31.1E at 021800Z nov2007-11-05
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
Container adrift vicinity 35-14.3N 017-08.3E at 281200Z jan2004-01-28

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 17:19Z; 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.