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40 foot container partially submerged and adrift in 18-02.60N 040-51.38E

Red Sea · HYDROPAC 3178/22

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2022-11-12 05:52Z

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 IX 458/22 091607Z NOV 22.. Issued 2022-11-09 16:18Z. 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
Red Sea. The parsed report position is 18.043, 40.856. 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 Red Sea →

issued
2022-11-09 16:18Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2022-11-12 16:14Z
authority
NAVAREA IX 458/22 091607Z NOV 22.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA IX · named as the source of this relay
sea
Red Sea
position
18.043, 40.856
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

RED SEA.
SAUDI ARABIA.
DNC 10.
1. 40 FOOT CONTAINER PARTIALLY SUBMERGED AND ADRIFT
   IN 18-02.60N 040-51.38E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 121614Z NOV 22.

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.
Semi-submerged
Floating at or just below the surface, so hard to see by eye or radar.
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

3 within 180 nm since 2000 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

21 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-25 00:02Z; source collection times vary.

Other

Everything the classifier did not place elsewhere. All current other warnings →

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