Containers adrift: a. vicinity 14-58N 062-42W at 252000Z feb
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 90/10
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2010-03-01 22:39Z
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) · WEST INDIES 9/10 261604Z FEB 10.. Issued 2010-02-26 22:47Z. 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 15.250, -61.667. 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
- Container adrift vicinity 14-58N 062-42W at 252000Z febcancelled by this notice
These reports were linked by category and sea, with positions within 30 nautical miles and issue dates within 30 days of another report's recorded in-force span. Links can extend through other members, so the full group can cover a larger area or period. Proximity does not confirm that they describe one incident.
- NAVAREA IV 88/102010-02-26 · Archived notice
- NAVAREA IV 90/10 · this notice2010-02-26 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 381/102010-03-02 · Archived notice
- NAVAREA IV 99/102010-03-03 · Archived notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Caribbean Sea →
- issued
- 2010-02-26 22:47Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2010-03-01 22:39Z
- authority
- WEST INDIES 9/10 261604Z FEB 10.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- WEST INDIES
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 15.250, -61.667
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA.
1. CONTAINERS ADRIFT:
A. VICINITY 14-58N 062-42W
AT 252000Z FEB.
B. WITHIN 15 MILES OF 15-15N 061-40W
AT 261500Z FEB.
2. CANCEL NAVAREA IV 88/10.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 012239Z MAR.
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.
- Within a radius of
- A circular area — every position within a stated distance of a point.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- NAVAREA
- One of the 21 ocean areas of the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service, each with a coordinator that broadcasts long-range warnings.
- 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
12 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 in 14-09.4N 060-13.3W at 101205Z dec2017-12-10
- 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
- Container adrift in 17-50.2N 062-15.3W at 061830Z 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
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
- Pointe du vieux fort light 15-56.90N 061-42.46WNav aids · 42 nm
- Carenage range rear light 14-36.32N 061-03.74W changed to oc (2) g 50 meters 9 milesNav aids · 52.2 nm
- Ilet du gosier light 16-11.90N 061-29.44W at reduced intensityOther · 57.8 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.