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40 foot partially submerged container, green color, adrift in 18-51.00N 039-43.10E

Red Sea · HYDROPAC 3232/22

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2022-11-17 15:30Z

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 464/22 141528Z NOV 22.. Issued 2022-11-14 15:34Z. 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 18.850, 39.718. 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 Red Sea →

issued: 2022-11-14 15:34Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2022-11-17 15:30Z
authority: NAVAREA IX 464/22 141528Z NOV 22.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA IX · named as the source of this relay
sea: Red Sea
position: 18.850, 39.718
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 PARTIALLY SUBMERGED CONTAINER, GREEN
   COLOR, ADRIFT IN 18-51.00N 039-43.10E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 171530Z 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.
Semi-submerged: Floating at or just below the surface, so hard to see by eye or radar.
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

4 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.

40 foot container partially submerged and adrift in 18-02.60N 040-51.38E2022-11-09
Jeddah dpgs station 21-28.4N 039-08.9E at reduced power2003-03-17
Gizan north buoy 16-56.8N 041-17.4E unreliable2000-08-17

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

Derelict M/V isa star aground in 18-26.00N 041-06.00EDerelicts · 82.5 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

23 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 11:25Z; 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.