Containers

Container adrift vicinity 14-16.7N 114-20.8E at 172310Z feb

South China Sea · HYDROPAC 288/00

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2000-02-25 06:00Z

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 114/00 180800Z FEB 00; HONOSARCOORD 181030Z & 181035Z FEB 00. Issued 2000-02-18 11:10Z. 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 14.278, 114.347. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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Current notices and reporting history in the South China Sea →

issued
2000-02-18 11:10Z
status
Archived notice
authority
NAVAREA XI 114/00 180800Z FEB 00; HONOSARCOORD 181030Z & 181035Z FEB 00
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea
South China Sea
position
14.278, 114.347
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 VICINITY 14-16.7N 114-20.8E AT 172310Z FEB.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 280/00(19) AND 281/00(19), SIGNALS CEASED.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 25 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.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROPAC
The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · drifting containers

6 within 180 nm since 1998 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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00
02

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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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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 2026-09-29 06:57Z; 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.