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Container with hazardous materials adrift in 24-04.49S 035-48.45E

Mozambique Channel · HYDROPAC 2400/14

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2014-08-18 10:33Z

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 VII 270/14 150820Z AUG 14.. Issued 2014-08-15 10:33Z. 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: Mozambique Channel. The parsed report position is -24.075, 35.807. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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issued: 2014-08-15 10:33Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2014-08-18 10:33Z
authority: NAVAREA VII 270/14 150820Z AUG 14.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA VII · named as the source of this relay
sea: Mozambique Channel
position: -24.075, 35.807
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL.
1. CONTAINER WITH HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ADRIFT
   IN 24-04.49S 035-48.45E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 181033Z AUG 14.

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.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · other warnings

2 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.

Barge manica alfa sunk vicinity 25-20S 033-20E at 250827Z jul2001-07-25

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

21 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 00:45Z; 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.