Key facts
March 5, 2018
Navigational Hazard: 70 Cargo Containers Afloat Off
North Carolina Coast
"The Coast Guard is warning mariners about more than 70 cargo containers that may be floating off the
Outer Banks in
North Carolina. It's more aftermath from
Winter Storm Riley.
The containers fell from the Maersk Shanghai, a 110,000-ton cargo ship on its way from Norfolk, Virginia to Charleston, South Carolina.
The ship called Coast Guard Sector North Carolina on the
radio Saturday night, after she
lost between 70 and 73 cargo containers in high winds and heavy seas. The containers fell about 17 miles off Oregon Inlet, North Carolina.
The Coast Guard urges all mariners to transit this area with caution."