Containers

Container adrift in 35-08.5N 154-17.7E at 132040Z apr 11

North Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 1161/11

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2011-04-17 09:10Z

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 XI 233/11 140815Z APR 11.. Issued 2011-04-14 09:11Z. 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 Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is 35.142, 154.295. 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 Pacific Ocean →

issued: 2011-04-14 09:11Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2011-04-17 09:10Z
authority: NAVAREA XI 233/11 140815Z APR 11.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea: North Pacific Ocean
position: 35.142, 154.295
containers: 1
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC.
1. CONTAINER ADRIFT IN 35-08.5N 154-17.7E
   AT 132040Z APR 11.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 170910Z APR.

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.

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Collected reports in this area · drifting containers

5 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.

Container adrift in 35-22N 157-48E at 131030Z aug2011-08-14
Container adrift in 35-26.5N 155-46.8E at 020458Z aug2011-08-02
Container adrift in 36-05.3N 155-57.3E at 130550Z jul2011-07-13
Numerous containers adrift vicinity 35-40N 155-13E at 050130Z mar2001-03-05

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

Typhoon 26W (choi-wan)Storms · 107.9 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 drifting containers listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 19:45Z; 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.