Nine containers, white color, adrift in vicinity 45-00N 015-30W
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 949/22
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2022-04-06 00:15Z
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 121/22 030005Z APR 22.. Issued 2022-04-03 00:15Z. 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
- North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 45.000, -15.500. 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 North Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2022-04-03 00:15Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2022-04-06 00:15Z
- authority
- NAVAREA II 121/22 030005Z APR 22.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 45.000, -15.500
- 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. NINE CONTAINERS, WHITE COLOR, ADRIFT IN VICINITY 45-00N 015-30W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 060015Z APR 22.
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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · other warnings
7 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.
- Nine containers, white color, adrift in vicinity 45-00N 015-30W2022-03-27
- Nine containers, white color, adrift in vicinity 44-00.0N 015-30.2W2022-03-22
- Nine meter S/V lofoten III requesting assistance in 43-57N 012-19W2019-03-26
- 32 meter long structure adrift in 43-51N 015-42W at 041225Z mar2003-03-04
- M/V traden listing in 43-57N 016-50W2001-10-19
- Three 30-40 meter long cranes adrift between 44-14.7N 013-47.5W and 44-27.6N 014-11.6W at 082330Z jan2001-01-09
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 04:05Z; 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.