Container adrift in 17-50.2N 062-15.3W at 061830Z dec
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 497/10
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2010-12-08 11:48Z
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) · FORT DE FRANCE 25/10 080911Z DEC 10.. Issued 2010-12-08 10:27Z. 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 17.837, -62.255. 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
- Cancel NAVAREA IV 497/10 and this msg, 493/10 referslater cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Caribbean Sea →
- issued
- 2010-12-08 10:27Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2010-12-11 10:30Z
- authority
- FORT DE FRANCE 25/10 080911Z DEC 10.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- FORT DE FRANCE
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 17.837, -62.255
- 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. 1. CONTAINER ADRIFT IN 17-50.2N 062-15.3W AT 061830Z DEC. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 111030Z DEC.
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
- Container adrift in 18-08N 062-26W at 081400Z dec2010-12-08
- 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
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
- Anchoring prohibited until further notice in area bound by 18-13.60N 063-04.15W, 18-13.60N 063-04.70W,…Other · 52.3 nm
- Kitts and nevisSpills · 75.6 nm
- Ilet du gosier light 16-11.90N 061-29.44W at reduced intensityOther · 107.7 nm
- Pointe du vieux fort light 15-56.90N 061-42.46WNav aids · 117.7 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 drifting containers listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 15:27Z; 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.