Eight containers adrift vicinity 19-13.5N 129-02.8E at 150335Z mar
Philippine Sea · HYDROPAC 548/09
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2009-03-22 00:01Z
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 548/09 15 MAR 09.. Issued 2009-03-15 09:40Z. 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
- Philippine Sea. The parsed report position is 19.225, 129.047. 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
- 20 foot vessel, white hull, two persons on board, unreportedcancelled by this notice
- 20 foot vessel, white hull, two persons on board, unreported, last known position 08-40N 167-40Ecancelled by this notice
- Two persons missing from F/V mbc vicinity 21-59S 152-57E at 100200Z marcancelled by this notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Philippine Sea →
- issued
- 2009-03-15 09:40Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 548/09 15 MAR 09.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Philippine Sea
- position
- 19.225, 129.047
- containers
- 8
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. EIGHT CONTAINERS ADRIFT VICINITY 19-13.5N 129-02.8E AT 150335Z MAR. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 457/09, 422/09 REFERS. 3. CANCEL HYDROPAC 502/09(74), SEARCH SUSPENDED. 4. CANCEL THIS MSG 22 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
2 within 180 nm since 2009 · 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 2026-09-29 11:51Z; 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.