Container adrift in vicinity 36-13.65S 150-11.33E at 072320Z jun
Tasman Sea · HYDROPAC 1697/20
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2020-06-11 01:05Z
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) · SEA SAFETY 67/20 080046Z JUN 20.. Issued 2020-06-08 01:05Z. 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
- Tasman Sea. The parsed report position is -36.227, 150.189. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2020-06-08 01:05Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2020-06-11 01:05Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 67/20 080046Z JUN 20.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Tasman Sea
- position
- -36.227, 150.189
- containers
- 1
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
TASMAN SEA. AUSTRALIA-EAST COAST. DNC 05. 1. CONTAINER ADRIFT IN VICINITY 36-13.65S 150-11.33E AT 072320Z JUN. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 110105Z JUN 20.
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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · drifting containers
13 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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.
- 40 foot container adrift in 34-50.82S 151-20.29E at 120400Z jul2020-07-12
- Yellow container adrift in vicinity 36-45.8S 150-05.9E at 080204Z jun2020-06-08
- Debris and container adrift in vicinity 35-45.9S 150-59.3E at 272333Z may2020-05-28
- Container adrift in vicinity 34-19.36S 151-05.68E at 270500Z may 202020-05-27
- Container adrift in vicinity 33-26S 151-30E at 270440Z may 202020-05-27
- 40 containers adrift in vicinity 34-11S 151-55E at 232010Z may2020-05-27
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 2026-10-02 10:42Z; 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.