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Numerous containers partially submerged and adrift in area within 40 miles of 22-02.2S 168-38.5E

South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 1140/18

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2018-03-26 07:44Z

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) · AVURNAV NOUMEA 18/18 230715Z MAR 18.. Issued 2018-03-23 07:44Z. 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
South Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is -22.037, 168.642 with a 40.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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issued
2018-03-23 07:44Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2018-03-26 07:44Z
authority
AVURNAV NOUMEA 18/18 230715Z MAR 18.
issued by
AVURNAV NOUMEA
sea
South Pacific Ocean
position
-22.037, 168.642 · r 40.0 nm
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN SOUTH PACIFIC.
CORAL SEA.
NEW CALEDONIA.
DNC 06.
1. NUMEROUS CONTAINERS PARTIALLY SUBMERGED AND
   ADRIFT IN AREA WITHIN 40 MILES OF 22-02.2S 168-38.5E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 260744Z MAR 18.

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.
Semi-submerged
Floating at or just below the surface, so hard to see by eye or radar.
Adrift
Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
Within a radius of
A circular area — every position within a stated distance of a point.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · other warnings

10 within 180 nm since 2018 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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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

21 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 22:54Z; source collection times vary.

Other

Everything the classifier did not place elsewhere. All current other warnings →

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