Containers

18 to 40 foot container adrift in 15-15.7N 071-43.0E

Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 1069/05

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2005-07-13 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 VIII 426/05 010600Z JUL 05.. Issued 2005-07-06 06:02Z. 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: Arabian Sea. The parsed report position is 15.262, 71.717. 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 Arabian Sea →

issued: 2005-07-06 06:02Z
status: Archived notice
authority: NAVAREA VIII 426/05 010600Z JUL 05.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
sea: Arabian Sea
position: 15.262, 71.717
containers: 1
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. 18 TO 40 FOOT CONTAINER ADRIFT IN 15-15.7N 071-43.0E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 13 JUL.

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.
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

7 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.

Four containers adrift in vicinity 17-02.00N 070-45.00E2023-06-16
20 containers adrift within ten miles of 18-15N 071-45E at 220432Z jun2015-06-22
Five containers adrift vicinity 16-33.87N 070-59.00E2015-06-20
Container adrift vicinity 13-56.7N 073-01.0E at 191350Z jul2013-07-21
Container adrift vicinity 14-27.0N 069-29.5E at 070330Z jul2013-07-08
Container adrift vicinity 17-40N 072-00E at 041141Z oct2005-10-05

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 2026-09-28 15:57Z; 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.