{"id":1226,"date":"2026-11-05T03:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T03:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/navwarn-790-26-records-two-drifting-containers-east-of-maslen-nos\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T03:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T03:37:26","slug":"navwarn-790-26-records-two-drifting-containers-east-of-maslen-nos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/navwarn-790-26-records-two-drifting-containers-east-of-maslen-nos\/","title":{"rendered":"NAVWARN 790-26 records two drifting containers east of Maslen Nos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bulgaria\u2019s Navy Hydrographic Service has now printed the Maslen Nos container pair on both official boards, and it is Thursday morning\u2019s second working primary, not a rewrite of Wednesday night\u2019s Akademik mile. The English in-force board on hs-navy.mod.bg still opens with NAVWARN 790\/26 EAST OF MASLEN NOS. AT 1000 UTC ON 03 NOV 2026 TWO DRIFTING CONTAINERS WERE REPORTED AT THE FOLLOWING COORDINATES: 42-19N 028-21E, 42-17N 028-24E. REPRESENT A NAVIGATIONAL DANGER. MARINERS ARE REQUESTED TO NAVIGATE WITH CAUTION. Official Bulgarian on the same service, which Wednesday night still started at 788\/26 and had not taken 790, now carries \u041d\u0410\u0412\u0418\u041c \u2116 790\/04.11.2026 \u0433. as the second live line under 797\/26: \u0418\u0417\u0422\u041e\u0427\u041d\u041e \u041e\u0422 \u041c\u0410\u0421\u041b\u0415\u041d \u041d\u041e\u0421. \u0412 1000 UTC \u043d\u0430 03 \u041d\u041e\u0415 2026 \u0441\u0430 \u0434\u043e\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438 \u0434\u0432\u0430 \u0434\u0440\u0435\u0439\u0444\u0443\u0432\u0430\u0449\u0438 \u043a\u043e\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0439\u043d\u0435\u0440\u0430 \u0432 \u0442\u043e\u0447\u043a\u0438 \u0441 \u043a\u043e\u043e\u0440\u0434\u0438\u043d\u0430\u0442\u0438: 42-19 N 028-21 E 42-17 N 028-24 E. \u0421\u044a\u0449\u0438\u0442\u0435 \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0441\u0442\u0430\u0432\u043b\u044f\u0432\u0430\u0442 \u043d\u0430\u0432\u0438\u0433\u0430\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u043d\u0430 \u043e\u043f\u0430\u0441\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442. \u041c\u043e\u0440\u0435\u043f\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0435 \u0434\u0430 \u043f\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0430\u0442 \u0441 \u043f\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0448\u0435\u043d\u043e \u0432\u043d\u0438\u043c\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435. That is the product. It names two plots, a 1000 UTC 3 November report clock, a navigational danger, and caution. It does not print a hull, an IMO number, a DG class, a radius, a wreck buoy, a least depth, a pollution line, a cancel clock, or a port closure.<\/p>\n

That is Thursday morning\u2019s second dedicated file. It is a Bulgarian coastal NAVWARN. It is not a rewrite of Wednesday night\u2019s dedicated 789\/26, not a fifth Burgas container watch, and not a Contship naming. Wednesday night correctly held 790\/26 as wrap on 789\/26 because official English had just taken the pair while the dedicated story was Akademik. Thursday morning official Bulgarian has taken 790, official English still starts at 790, and 797\/26 has become the new top Bulgarian line against Mentor. 790\/26 is unused as dedicated no longer. SeaLagom\u2019s English reprint, first seen at 11:04 UTC on 4 November and still matching, prints the same two coordinates as 42-19.00N 028-21.00E and 42-17.00N 028-24.00E. Hold the official one-decimal plots, 42-19N 028-21E and 42-17N 028-24E, as the working positions. Hold the two-decimal reprint as colour, not as a second pair.<\/p>\n

What NAVWARN 790 actually printed<\/h2>\n

The hydrographic text is short and is the working primary. NAVWARN 790\/26. East of Maslen Nos. At 1000 UTC on 3 November 2026 two drifting containers were reported at 42-19N 028-21E and 42-17N 028-24E. Represent a navigational danger. Mariners are requested to navigate with caution. Stay with that wording. The board did not print a hull name. It did not print an IMO number, a call sign, or a flag. It did not print \u201cContship Jet,\u201d \u201cMentor,\u201d or a tank. It did not print a DG class list, a UN number, or a cargo mark. It did not print a radius, a wreck buoy, a least depth, or a light. It did not print a drift vector, a south set, or a 3-knot figure. It did not print a cancel time. It did not print a VHF working channel, an MRCC mailbox, or a harbour-master closure of Burgas, Sozopol, Ahtopol or Tsarevo. The instruction is caution, not a closed box around the cape, and not a one-nautical-mile ship berth.<\/p>\n

The two plots are the first briefing fact. 42-19N 028-21E and 42-17N 028-24E sit well east of Maslen Nos, not on the cape, and not in Burgas Bay. Dedicated 786\/26 remains wrap on Tuesday morning\u2019s 784\/26 file: drifting lifeboat without crew at 42-18.9N 027-56.4E, 1245 UTC 2 November, east of Maslen Nos. That boat shares the cape tag and sits about eighteen nautical miles of longitude west of 790\/26\u2019s northern box. They are two products. A boat is not two containers. Do not apply 786\/26\u2019s \u201ckeep safety distance\u201d line to 790\/26; 790 printed caution, not a numeric berth. Dedicated 779\/26 remains Monday morning\u2019s four Burgas Bay containers at 010855 UTC 1 November, 42-33N 028-09E, 42-32N 028-11E, 42-34N 028-16E and 42-27N 028-13E. Wrap 787\/26, now off the live Bulgarian list, was a separate Burgas pair at 42-32.0N 028-19.0E and 42-22.9N 028-18.0E. 790\/26\u2019s pair is south of those Burgas plots and east of Maslen Nos. Do not brief Thursday morning as a fifth Burgas container watch. Do not convert two unlit boxes onto Contship Jet at 43-07.80N 028-45.36E, some fifty-five nautical miles to the north-northeast.<\/p>\n

The clock is the second briefing fact. The containers were reported at 1000 UTC on 3 November. The NAVWARN date line is 4 November. That is a time-late coastal print of a 3 November sighting, not a 4 November drop and not a 5 November open. By Thursday morning the pair has been in the water, on the printed plots, for about forty-one hours, with no printed recovery, no printed south set, and no printed cancel. A passage plan that treated Wednesday night\u2019s wrap line as \u201cwait for a hull name\u201d and then dropped the two positions because 797\/26 arrived has under-read a notice that is now on both official boards. A passage plan that only plotted 42-19N and ignored 42-17N has halved the watch. The two positions are about three nautical miles apart. Do not invent a single centroid. Do not invent a drift circle and treat it as hydrographic fact. 790\/26 prints two coordinates and stops.<\/p>\n

The missing hull, DG, radius and cancel lines are omissions, not a completed wreck order. 768\/26 still names Contship Jet and a sunk plot. 797\/26 still names Mentor and an IMO number. 790\/26 names neither. Do not borrow Mentor, 9340374, or a three-knot south set onto two boxes. Do not borrow Contship onto 42-19N. Do not invent a one-nautical-mile halo because 789\/26 used that number on Akademik. Do not invent five cables because 766\/26 used that number on Khoryv. Give what 790 printed: two plots, navigational danger, caution. Watch a later NAVWARN that names a hull against 42-19N or 42-17N, marks a wreck buoy, prints recovery, adds a radius, or cancels 790.<\/p>\n

Same-board wrap, held separately<\/h2>\n

Official Bulgarian now opens with NAVWARN 797\/26, TOP URGENT, m\/t MENTOR, IMO 9340374, 43-25.1N 028-37.0E, 1435 UTC 4 November, drifting south 3 knots, unlit, no crew, report MRCC-Varna. That is this morning\u2019s first dedicated file. 790\/26 is not Mentor. Do not apply 797\/26\u2019s visual-contact report, three-knot set, or IMO number to two containers. Official English has not taken 797 and still starts at 790. Hold that board split on the 797 file, not on this one.<\/p>\n

Official Bulgarian still carries 789\/26 under 797 and 790: research vessel Akademik, CTD expedition 0500 UTC 4 November to 1700 UTC 30 November, one-nautical-mile berth from the vessel, internal waters and territorial sea. Dedicated Wednesday night. Do not apply Akademik\u2019s mile to two unlit boxes. 786\/26 remains wrap, unmanned lifeboat, 42-18.9N 027-56.4E. 776\/26 remains the dedicated Galata diving box through 051430 UTC 5 November. 775\/26 remains the two-hour e-mail. 766\/26 remains Khoryv five-cable east of Shabla. 93\/26 remains the standing Burgas KAIROS five-cable wrap.<\/p>\n

Official Bulgarian has now dropped 788\/26, 787\/26, 784\/26, 779\/26, 780\/26, 781\/26, 777\/26 and 768\/26 from the live list. Official English this morning likewise does not reprint those numbers under 790. Do not rewrite Tuesday morning\u2019s dedicated 784\/26 Ahtopol tank, Monday morning\u2019s dedicated 779\/26 four-container watch, Thursday\u2019s dedicated 768\/26 Contship Jet wreck, or Saturday night\u2019s dedicated 777\/26 cutter 331 as cancelled pieces merely because the live boards have moved on. Those dedicated files stay on their own lines until a later NAVWARN names recovery, a wreck buoy, or a cancel against their printed plots. Do not treat a dropped 787\/26 Burgas pair as 790\/26 recovered. Do not treat a dropped 788\/26 Primorsko pair as this Maslen Nos watch.<\/p>\n

What this is not<\/h2>\n

This is not NAVWARN 789\/26, and it is not a second Akademik mile. Wednesday night\u2019s dedicated file remains a named research vessel, CTD sampling, one nautical mile from the ship, internal waters and territorial sea through 1700 UTC 30 November. 790\/26 prints two containers, no ship, and no mile. Do not apply 1 nautical mile to 42-19N. Do not brief Thursday morning as Akademik converted onto boxes.<\/p>\n

This is not NAVWARN 797\/26, and it is not Mentor. This morning\u2019s dedicated unmanned tanker remains 43-25.1N 028-37.0E, IMO 9340374, east of Cape Kaliakra, south 3 knots, unlit, no crew. That plot is about seventy nautical miles north of 790\/26\u2019s pair. Do not collapse two Maslen Nos boxes onto a Kaliakra tanker. Do not promote 9340374 onto 790\/26.<\/p>\n

This is not NAVWARN 779\/26, and it is not a fifth Burgas container watch. Monday morning\u2019s dedicated four-container file remains east of Burgas Bay at 010855 UTC 1 November. 790\/26 is east of Maslen Nos, a 3 November 1000 UTC report, two plots not four. This is not wrap 787\/26\u2019s Burgas pair and not wrap 788\/26\u2019s Primorsko pair. Those numbers are off the live boards this morning; they were never this pair. This is not 786\/26. The Maslen Nos lifeboat remains 42-18.9N 027-56.4E, a boat, not two boxes, about eighteen nautical miles west. This is not 784\/26, and it is not an Ahtopol tank at 42-09.2N 027-58.6E. A tank is not a container. This is not 768\/26. Contship Jet remains sunk at 43-07.80N 028-45.36E. 790\/26 does not name that hull.<\/p>\n

This is not 776\/26. The Galata diving prohibition still ends at 051430 UTC on 5 November, four corners around 43-04N, some fifty nautical miles north of Maslen Nos. 790\/26 does not close that box and does not extend it. This is not 775\/26, and it is not a second territorial-sea reporting product. The two-hour e-mail to sp@vtmis.bg stands. This is not 777\/26, and it is not cutter 331. This is not ARN 164\/2026\u2019s 11\u201312 November Romanian firing box and not ARN 163\/2026\u2019s Mangalia piping. Those are Directorate products. They do not belong on a Bulgarian container pair. This is not NAVAREA III 0169\/26 and not Britoil Centurion. This is not a UKMTO Attack, not a JMIC Update 111, and not a move of Wednesday morning\u2019s dedicated IMO 128-count. UKMTO\u2019s product board still ends at Warning 195-26. Update 110 remains the last numbered public periodic note, ICOD 011300 UTC 1 November. The IMO highlighted-incidents board remains 128 confirmed \/ 24 dead as at 3 November. Two drifting containers off Maslen Nos do not belong on that Middle East table. No 196-26, no Update 111, no IMO 129, no NAVAREA IX 429\/26, no NAVAREA III 0170\/26, no ARN 165 this run.<\/p>\n

Operational implications<\/h2>\n

For a master already shaping a Burgas, Sozopol, Maslen Nos, Ahtopol, Tsarevo or Turkish-border coastal transit, or holding for a Bulgarian territorial-sea crossing under 775\/26, Thursday morning is two unlit containers still printed as a navigational danger at 42-19N 028-21E and 42-17N 028-24E, on top of 786\/26\u2019s unmanned lifeboat eighteen nautical miles west, on top of 789\/26\u2019s moving Akademik mile anywhere in the territorial sea through 30 November, on top of 776\/26\u2019s Galata prohibition through 1430 UTC this afternoon, on top of 797\/26\u2019s unmanned Mentor some seventy nautical miles to the north, and on top of 775\/26\u2019s two-hour e-mail. A passage plan that only carried Wednesday night\u2019s Akademik mile, or that treated the Maslen Nos approaches as a lookout problem because 786\/26 still prints a boat, has not budgeted two boxes with no printed radius and no printed recovery.<\/p>\n

Two drifting containers with a printed danger line, no printed lights, no printed AIS, and no printed cancel are a lookout, radar, CPA and night-unlit problem before they are a cargo-recovery rewrite. 790\/26 does not say the boxes are awash, awash-and-sunk, or still on the 3 November plots. It does not say they are empty. It does not say they came off Contship Jet. BMP lookout and company night-orders remain the working industry pack; 790\/26 does not reprint them and does not order a deviation around a published cape. Log the NAVWARN number, the 4 November English-board appearance, the 4 November Bulgarian-board appearance, the two plots, the 1000 UTC 3 November report clock, navigational danger, and caution. Do not log a hull, an IMO number, a DG class, a radius, Mentor, 9340374, or a keep-clear around 42-18.9N that belongs to 786\/26.<\/p>\n

Charterers and P&I will now ask whether the ship was east of Maslen Nos after 1000 UTC on 3 November, whether it kept a lookout for two unlit boxes, and whether it sent 775\/26. They will not be answered by Wednesday night\u2019s Akademik mile, by Monday\u2019s Burgas four-container file, or by a SeaLagom withdrawn list that official Bulgarian has now matched by dropping 787 and 788 while keeping 790. Sightings of either box, of a third unlit object, or of pollution go to MRCC Varna \/ VTMIS and to the company security officer. Registering a 775\/26 SP e-mail is not a substitute for a sighting report. Next-port authorities at Burgas, Sozopol and the Turkish approaches will want a written account of two printed plots that 789\/26 does not contain.<\/p>\n

Keep the dedicated files on their own lines. 797\/26 is this morning\u2019s dedicated Mentor piece. 789\/26 remains Wednesday night\u2019s dedicated Akademik mile through 1700 UTC 30 November. 776\/26 remains the dedicated Galata diving box through 051430 UTC 5 November. 777\/26 remains the dedicated Burgas cutter-331 piece on its original file even if the live boards have dropped the number. 775\/26 remains the two-hour territorial-sea e-mail. 784\/26 remains Tuesday morning\u2019s dedicated Ahtopol tank. 779\/26 remains Monday morning\u2019s dedicated four-container watch. 768\/26 remains Contship Jet sunk at 43-07.80N 028-45.36E. 766\/26 remains Khoryv five-cable east of Shabla. 93\/26 remains the standing KAIROS five-cable wrap. 786\/26, and the now-off-board 787\/26 and 788\/26, remain wrap on 784\/26. Do not recast 5 November morning as a Burgas rewrite, as a Contship naming, as Akademik unlit, or as Mentor\u2019s boxes.<\/p>\n

What Operators Should Note<\/h2>\n