Containers

Container adrift in vicinity 36-54.64N 014-36.77W at 222050Z apr

North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 871/23

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2023-04-25 21:32Z

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 119/23 222105Z APR 23.. Issued 2023-04-22 21:38Z. 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: North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 36.911, -14.613. 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 North Atlantic Ocean →

issued: 2023-04-22 21:38Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2023-04-25 21:32Z
authority: NAVAREA II 119/23 222105Z APR 23.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
sea: North Atlantic Ocean
position: 36.911, -14.613
containers: 1
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EASTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.
DNC 08.
1. CONTAINER ADRIFT IN VICINITY
   36-54.64N 014-36.77W AT 222050Z APR.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 252132Z 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.

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Collected reports in this area · drifting containers

9 within 180 nm since 2004 · 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 37-38N 013-45W at 011829Z jun2009-06-01
Container adrift vicinity 37-27N 012-00W at 241050Z mar2009-03-24
Container adrift vicinity 37-50N 014-14W at 110830Z mar2009-03-11
Two containers adrift vicinity 36-02.5N 018-00.4W at 051715Z jan2007-01-06
Four containers adrift vicinity 35-14.40N 016-41.42W at 051740Z dec2006-12-06
Three containers adrift vicinity 35-29N 016-50W at 041125Z dec2006-12-04

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 2026-10-02 06:42Z; 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.