Container adrift vicinity 46-15.8N 004-48.0W at 281700Z may
Bay of Biscay · HYDROLANT 896/08
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2008-06-04 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) · NAVAREA II 165/08 280845Z MAY 08. Issued 2008-05-28 11:37Z. 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 46.263, -4.800. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- M/V nextans skagerrak reports crewman with possible heart attack in 27N 035Ecancelled by this notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Bay of Biscay →
- issued
- 2008-05-28 11:37Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA II 165/08 280845Z MAY 08
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Bay of Biscay
- position
- 46.263, -4.800
- 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 46-15.8N 004-48.0W AT 281700Z MAY. 2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 892/08(62). 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 04 JUN.
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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROLANT
- The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · drifting containers
148 within 180 nm since 1997 · 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.
- 15 containers adrift in 47-20.00N 007-35.00W2024-04-07
- Container adrift in 43-37.0N 005-31.0W at 071038Z mar2024-03-07
- Thirteen container adrift in 43-34.00N 004-43.00W2024-03-02
- Six containers adrift in 43-34.10N 004-43.10W at 010001Z mar2024-03-02
- Container adrift in vicinity 47-52.20N 005-43.10W at 020234Z jun2023-06-02
- Four 40 foot containers adrift in vicinity 43-47.59N 006-11.40W at 020600 apr2023-04-04
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 2026-09-30 17:57Z; 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.