What Happens To Shipping Containers Lost At Sea?

Gold at sea, Is it a treasure that anyone can look for? Container Ship storm. Lost at sea. Even though there are hundreds of millions of shipping containers that travel the world's oceans each year, not all of them are able to arrive safely at their final destination. Perhaps this explains the loss of hundreds or perhaps thousands of cargo containers at sea. But then we are left with the question “What happens to the shipping containers lost at sea?”
Cargo inside lost containers can continue washing up on coasts years after the initial occurrence. Huge waves collided with a ship that was transporting containers of Lego in 1997; to this day, hundreds of Lego bricks can be discovered washed up on the shores of Cornwall, England.
It would surprise you to know that it is against the law to take any items that are found washed up on the beach especially when they are cargo from containers that have fallen into the sea in time past. If cargo from shipping containers that washed overboard is located, it needs to be reported since the contents still belong to the shipper or, if a claim was filed and resolved, the insurance.
Containers that are lost at sea pose a threat to shipping and other aspects of ocean life. In many instances, containers are used to store chemicals or other potentially hazardous commodities, which can severely affect the surrounding environment. Containers may contain a variety of things in addition to chemicals that are worrisome from an environmental point of view.
According to the World Shipping Council (WSC) report, an annual average of 1,382 shipping containers went missing while being transported by sea between 2018 and 2019. A second rise occurred between November 2020 and April 2021, when it was estimated that roughly 3,000 containers were lost in the North Pacific due to five distinct incidences, that's equivalent to having double the annual average. So, what exactly is going on here?
Various factors might lead to containers being lost overboard from ships. Before the losses that occurred in 2020/21, the World Shipping Council published a report examining the issue's full breadth. There was not a single factor that caused the incidents, but rather that there may have been multiple causes. This includes things like inclement weather, the architecture of the ship, challenges with the propulsion, and how containers are lashed together. The deterioration of containers that causes metal fatigue is also a potential factor to consider.
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[navyproductions]

Would you go looking for treasure at sea or on the beach? It's bizarre if you would find anything, but it can be done! 😱😂

[LunaRose]

"The containers lost at sea belong to the company" nah bro they lost it, finders keepers bud

[justingower]

Yeah ok. Anything washed up at sea is mine. Try to stop me.

[beaglesguy]

Most informative video so far this year. Interesting and entertaining too.

[raybin]

What if we went back to making our own stuff in the US? Wouldn't need to have so many cargo ships plying the seas.

[neckarsulme]

clearly we need some common sense shipping container laws

[wifix]

They should not be allowed to stack them so high pickups are regulated on the highways

[InFltSvc]

If you think for a second if I came across something that was lost at sea that I would report it you are nuts! And I bet most feel the same

[DELAWAREBOWHUNTER]

When we find them we yell “finders keepers”…… LOL

[llVIU]

2:40 you're missing the most important factor of them all, greedy bosses threatening workers and not securing containers or overloading ships. They're well aware of the risk of containers going overboard. They don't care or are too stupid. They should be thrown in prison. Proportional to how much I would be fined for littering the sea with something small. Measure it by weight

[Zurvanox]

I think if a Container is lost, they should make efforts to retreat it besides some compensation for their clients of it still belongs to them.

[jeremywentworth]

English channel is the busiest shipping.lane in the world we regularly get containers in the sea and washing up on the south coast of England. We have over 500/1000 ships a day going through the region between UK and Europe.

[Iwin.Soloent]

Damm id been devestated to get a message saying my shi beneath sea 😂

[bryannakvinda]

Actually scuttling rights these are abandoned and fully legal to claim especially to salvage companies

[MrdoallDoanything]

You know, if shipping container, companies are not going to be responsible for the retrieval of their containers for any damage caused by them to other vessels at sea. Maybe we should limit them to half the load that they are carrying now.

[IbexThaGoat]

Those people getting tossed around that boat was wild 🪇🪇🪇

[jeffhampton]

The shipping containers need to be inside of a ship not on top

[Yalnif]

To answer the question some poor boat owner hits a container that was not properly loaded nor properly secured and everyone on the boat is killed. That's what happens to a container lost at sea.

[georgethayer]

You make it sound like the guys on the flight deck and the ones in the galley or the only ones that do anything I was when I was in the Navy back in the '60s I was a BT boiler tender I wasn't for us the ship wouldn't know anywhere we made the steam to run the ship we made the steam to shoot the catapults and whatever else they needed heated the water all that stuff so don't forget about us guys down below decks it was 250 of us in the boiler division God bless thank you bt3

[MrSniperific]

Not a snowball chance in hell I'm reporting a container found.