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Three containers and one platform adrift vicinity 21-40.1S 175-55.6W

South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 676/06

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2006-04-22 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) · MNZ 122/06 152058 APR 06.. Issued 2006-04-15 22:15Z. 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 Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is -21.668, -175.927. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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issued
2006-04-15 22:15Z
status
Archived notice
authority
MNZ 122/06 152058 APR 06.
issued by
MNZ
sea
South Pacific Ocean
position
-21.668, -175.927
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. THREE CONTAINERS AND ONE PLATFORM ADRIFT
   VICINITY 21-40.1S 175-55.6W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 22 APR.

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.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Collected reports in this area · other warnings

3 within 180 nm since 2006 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

06
10
11

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

21 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 09:09Z; 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.