Containers

Two containers adrift in 38-36S 140-24E at 010720Z oct

Great Australian Bight · HYDROPAC 1686/07

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2007-10-07 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) · RCC AUSTRALIA SSM 66/07 010746Z OCT 07.. Issued 2007-10-01 09:15Z. 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: Great Australian Bight. The parsed report position is -38.600, 140.400. 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 Great Australian Bight →

issued: 2007-10-01 09:15Z
status: Archived notice
authority: RCC AUSTRALIA SSM 66/07 010746Z OCT 07.
issued by: RCC AUSTRALIA SSM
sea: Great Australian Bight
position: -38.600, 140.400
containers: 2
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. TWO CONTAINERS ADRIFT IN 38-36S 140-24E
   AT 010720Z OCT.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 07 OCT.

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

4 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.

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

2 X 6M yellow surface buoys fl.white 3S temporarily established within 1.0NM of position 38-47.19S…Nav aids · 103.7 nm
Six meter buoy, yellow, established in 38-47.62S 142-37.77ENav aids · 105.1 nm
1 X 6M yellow surface buoy established in position 38-47.62S 142-37.77E 2.5NM clearance requestedNav aids · 105.1 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 drifting containers listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 21:32Z; 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.