Numerous containers adrift vicinity 35-40N 155-13E at 050130Z mar
North Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 355/01
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2001-03-12 00:00Z
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 128/01 050808Z MAR 01; MARITIME OPS NEW ZEALAND POR EGC #969 020235Z MAR 01. Issued 2001-03-05 09:20Z. 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
- North Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is 35.667, 155.217. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Distress signal received vicinity 44-46S 163-09Ecancelled by this notice
Current notices and reporting history in the North Pacific Ocean →
- issued
- 2001-03-05 09:20Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 128/01 050808Z MAR 01; MARITIME OPS NEW ZEALAND POR EGC #969 020235Z MAR 01
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Pacific Ocean
- position
- 35.667, 155.217
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. NUMEROUS CONTAINERS ADRIFT VICINITY 35-40N 155-13E AT 050130Z MAR. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 342/01(76), FALSE ALERT. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 12 MAR.
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.
Collected reports in this area · drifting containers
5 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.
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
0 drifting containers listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 19:45Z; 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.