20 containers adrift in vicinity 20-48.9N 069-32.9E at 192310Z jul
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 2497/17
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2017-07-24 10:47Z
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 VIII 514/17 211027Z JUL 17.. Issued 2017-07-21 10:47Z. 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
- Arabian Sea. The parsed report position is 20.815, 69.548. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2017-07-21 10:47Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2017-07-24 10:47Z
- authority
- NAVAREA VIII 514/17 211027Z JUL 17.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 20.815, 69.548
- containers
- 20
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
ARABIAN SEA. INDIA. DNC 03. 1. 20 CONTAINERS ADRIFT IN VICINITY 20-48.9N 069-32.9E AT 192310Z JUL. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 241047Z JUL 17.
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
12 within 180 nm since 2005 · 1 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.
- Partially submerged container adrift in vicinity 18-55.16N 071-55.61E at 200400Z aug2026-08-20
- Container adrift vicinity of trackline between 21-31N 067-42E and 21-18N 068-15E2014-07-28
- Container adrift vicinity 20-34.67N 072-28.96E at 040345Z aug2013-08-05
- Container adrift vicinity 20-37.8N 071-51.5E at 011256Z aug2013-08-02
- Three containers adrift in: a. 22-37.00N 068-58.00E2013-07-01
- 12 containers adrift vicinity of trackline between 22-39.9N 068-48.2E and 22-26.5N 068-43.1E at 281100Z jun2013-06-29
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 drifting containers listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-28 19:35Z; 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.