Numerous containers partially submerged and adrift in vicinity 21-24.0S 169-21.5E
South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 1179/18
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2018-03-29 05:35Z
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 19/18 260524Z MAR 18.. Issued 2018-03-26 05:35Z. 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 -21.400, 169.358. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Numerous containers partially submerged and adrift in area within 40 miles of 22-02.2S 168-38.5Ecancelled by this notice
Current notices and reporting history in the South Pacific Ocean →
- issued
- 2018-03-26 05:35Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2018-03-29 05:35Z
- authority
- AVURNAV NOUMEA 19/18 260524Z MAR 18.
- issued by
- AVURNAV NOUMEA
- sea
- South Pacific Ocean
- position
- -21.400, 169.358
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN SOUTH PACIFIC. DNC 06. 1. NUMEROUS CONTAINERS PARTIALLY SUBMERGED AND ADRIFT IN VICINITY 21-24.0S 169-21.5E. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1140/18. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 290535Z 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.
- 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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROPAC
- The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
- 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
11 within 180 nm since 2011 · 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.
- Hazardous operation 222200Z to 230600Z feb in area within 10 miles of 22-07S 167-27E2021-02-21
- Mrcc noumea 22-17S 166-26E inmarsat-c unavailable 250100Z to 250700Z jul2018-07-24
- Numerous containers partially submerged and adrift in area within 40 miles of 22-02.2S 168-38.5E2018-03-23
- Numerous containers partially submerged and adrift in area within 40 miles of 22-02.2S 168-38.5E2018-03-20
- Numerous containers partially submerged and adrift in area within 40 miles of 22-02.2S 168-38.5E2018-03-18
- Numerous containers partially submerged and adrift in area within 40 miles of 22-02.2S 168-38.5E2018-03-16
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 2026-09-30 11:52Z; 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.