Container adrift in 17-08N 116-51E at 050700Z feb
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 199/06
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2006-02-12 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) · MRCC HONG KONG 050730Z FEB 06. Issued 2006-02-05 07:51Z. 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 China Sea. The parsed report position is 17.133, 116.850. 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 South China Sea →
- issued
- 2006-02-05 07:51Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC HONG KONG 050730Z FEB 06
- issued by
- MRCC HONG KONG
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 17.133, 116.850
- containers
- 1
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. CONTAINER ADRIFT IN 17-08N 116-51E AT 050700Z FEB. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 12 FEB.
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
10 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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.
- Containers adrift in 18-37.5N 117-19.4E at 191104Z jun2012-06-19
- Container adrift vicinity 18-51.8N 117-28.6E at 190006Z jun2012-06-19
- Container adrift vicinity 18-05.9N 117-16.7E at 300855Z jan2006-01-30
- Container adrift vicinity 18-21.8N 117-49.4E at 282338Z jan2006-01-29
- Seven containers adrift vicinity 16-28.5N 118-25.6E2005-12-15
- Derelict M/V matten and numerous containers adrift in 16-09.5N 113-58.5E at 090900Z dec2002-12-09
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 2026-10-01 07:40Z; 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.