Three containers adrift vicinity 38-21N 157-51E at 180000Z dec
North Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 1930/04
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2004-12-25 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) · NAVAREA XI 578/04 180630Z DEC 04.. Issued 2004-12-18 11:07Z. 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 38.350, 157.850. 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
- 2004-12-18 11:07Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 578/04 180630Z DEC 04.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Pacific Ocean
- position
- 38.350, 157.850
- containers
- 3
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. THREE CONTAINERS ADRIFT VICINITY 38-21N 157-51E AT 180000Z DEC. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 25 DEC.
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.
Collected reports in this area · drifting containers
7 within 180 nm since 2004 · 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 36-05.3N 155-57.3E at 130550Z jul2011-07-13
- Container adrift in 39-00.4N 160-04.4E at 012328Z jul2011-07-02
- Containers adrift in 38-59.7N 155-38.4E at 270740Z jun2011-06-27
- Container adrift vicinity 39-55.5N 156-02.6E at 191950Z jun2011-06-19
- Container adrift in 36-52.2N 159-01.0E at 171935Z jun2011-06-17
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 13:44Z; 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.