Container adrift vicinity 38-26S 141-32E at 280655Z mar
Great Australian Bight · HYDROPAC 869/13
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2013-03-31 21:00Z
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) · SEA SAFETY 27/13 281904Z MAR 13.. Issued 2013-03-28 21:21Z. 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 -38.433, 141.533. 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 Great Australian Bight →
- issued
- 2013-03-28 21:21Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2013-03-31 21:00Z
- authority
- SEA SAFETY 27/13 281904Z MAR 13.
- issued by
- SEA SAFETY
- sea
- Great Australian Bight
- position
- -38.433, 141.533
- containers
- 1
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
AUSTRALIA-SOUTHEAST COAST. 1. CONTAINER ADRIFT VICINITY 38-26S 141-32E AT 280655Z MAR. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 312100Z 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.
- 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.
- Four containers adrift in 37-26.4S 139-07.9E at 232108Z mar2013-03-24
- Five 20 foot containers adrift in 38-35S 144-55E at 020515Z jul2008-07-02
- Two containers adrift in 38-36S 140-24E at 010720Z oct2007-10-01
- 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
- 2 X 6M yellow surface buoys fl.white 3S temporarily established within 1.0NM of position 38-47.19S…Nav aids · 54.4 nm
- Six meter buoy, yellow, established in 38-47.62S 142-37.77ENav aids · 55.8 nm
- 1 X 6M yellow surface buoy established in position 38-47.62S 142-37.77E 2.5NM clearance requestedNav aids · 55.8 nm
- Drill rig transocean equinox / V7A7397 / 538010767 in position 38-46.20S 142-48.80E 2.5 nm clearance requestedSurveys · 63.4 nm
- Great australian bightCable ops · 97.3 nm
- Special purpose vessel dependable / kdej / 367137000 conducting cable lay operations 10NM either side of…Other · 97.3 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 drifting containers listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 05:09Z; 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.