Container adrift in 14-09.4N 060-13.3W at 101205Z dec
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 1152/17
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2017-12-13 13:31Z
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) · AVURNAV FORT DE FRANCE 40/17 101328Z DEC 17.. Issued 2017-12-10 13:31Z. 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
- Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 14.157, -60.222. 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 Caribbean Sea →
- issued
- 2017-12-10 13:31Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2017-12-13 13:31Z
- authority
- AVURNAV FORT DE FRANCE 40/17 101328Z DEC 17.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- AVURNAV FORT DE FRANCE
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 14.157, -60.222
- containers
- 1
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA. SAINT LUCIA-NORTHEAST COAST. 1. CONTAINER ADRIFT IN 14-09.4N 060-13.3W AT 101205Z DEC. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 131331Z DEC 17.
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
10 within 180 nm since 2003 · 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 vicinity 15-50.0N 062-32.8W at 252015Z feb2011-02-26
- Containers adrift in area between saint lucia (13-54N 061-07W) and guadeloupe (16-07N 061-48W)2010-03-03
- Containers adrift in area between saint lucia (13-54N 061-07W) and guadeloupe (16-07N 061-48W)2010-03-02
- Containers adrift: a. vicinity 14-58N 062-42W at 252000Z feb2010-02-26
- Container adrift vicinity 14-58N 062-42W at 252000Z feb2010-02-26
- Container adrift vicinity 13-02.96N 062-32.80W at 22 apr2008-04-23
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
- Carenage range rear light 14-36.32N 061-03.74W changed to oc (2) g 50 meters 9 milesNav aids · 55.8 nm
- GrenadinesWrecks · 116.5 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 drifting containers listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 13:44Z; 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.