Four containers adrift in 37-26.4S 139-07.9E at 232108Z mar
Great Australian Bight · HYDROPAC 808/13
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2013-03-27 04:50Z
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) · SEA SAFETY 25/13 232213Z MAR 13 - AUSCOAST 79/13 CX 232304Z MAR 13.. Issued 2013-03-24 04:53Z. 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
- Great Australian Bight. The parsed report position is -37.440, 139.132. 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
- B. 10-35.73S 141-52.81Ecancelled by this notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Great Australian Bight →
- issued
- 2013-03-24 04:53Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2013-03-27 04:50Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 25/13 232213Z MAR 13 - AUSCOAST 79/13 CX 232304Z MAR 13.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Great Australian Bight
- position
- -37.440, 139.132
- containers
- 4
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
AUSTRALIA-SOUTHEAST COAST. 1. FOUR CONTAINERS ADRIFT IN 37-26.4S 139-07.9E AT 232108Z MAR. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 735/13(74), MOORINGS REMOVED. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 270450Z MAR 13.
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
6 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.
- Container adrift in vicinity 35-18.2S 137-11.0E at 270130Z may 202020-05-27
- Container adrift vicinity 38-26S 141-32E at 280655Z mar2013-03-28
- Two containers adrift in 38-36S 140-24E at 010720Z oct2007-10-01
- Six containers adrift in 37-45.1S 135-50.9E at 032040Z sep2002-09-03
- Three containers adrift vicinity of trackline between 38-45S 141-00E and 38-25S 140-29E2001-06-28
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 13:21Z; 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.