Containers

Container adrift vicinity 33-30.3N 019-03.7W at 231400Z may

North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 970/05

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2005-05-30 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 165/05 231519Z MAY 05.. Issued 2005-05-23 20:14Z. 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 33.505, -19.062. 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: 2005-05-23 20:14Z
status: Archived notice
authority: NAVAREA II 165/05 231519Z MAY 05.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
sea: North Atlantic Ocean
position: 33.505, -19.062
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 33-30.3N 019-03.7W
   AT 231400Z MAY.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 30 MAY.

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.
CANCEL THIS MSG: The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · drifting containers

11 within 180 nm since 2005 · 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.

Arquipelago de madeira2011-10-07
Container adrift vicinity 32-12.4N 021-28.5W at 101820Z mar2009-03-10
Container adrift vicinity 33-03.9N 017-47.5W at 051415Z mar2007-03-05
Container adrift vicinity 35-14N 021-22W at 141039Z feb2007-02-14
Container adrift vicinity 33-54N 020-16W at 051340Z feb2007-02-05
Two containers adrift vicinity 36-02.5N 018-00.4W at 051715Z jan2007-01-06

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 2026-09-25 01:52Z; 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.