When shipping containers are lost overboard, "Most of them sink. And a lot of times, they're just in really deep water," said Jason Rolfe of NOAA's Marine Debris Program.

FILE - A man looks at the Panamanian-registered container ship MSC Chitra that days earlier collided with the MV-Khalijia-II, a St. Kitts registered ship, in the Arabian Sea near Mumbai, India ...

The software pinpoints the tagged container on a map of the facility to within about 10 feet. It is also possible to use passive tags with a shorter read range. One way to do this is to read tags on ...

The disaster dumped more than 1,400 damaged shipping containers into the sea — releasing billions of plastic manufacturing pellets known as nurdles as well as thousands of tons of nitric acid ...

This image from video provided by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute shows fish and other sea life around a shipping container lost from the cargo vessel Med Taipei during a storm in ...

Over 16 years of collected data through 2023, the group said an average of 1,480 containers were lost annually. Their recent figures show 650 containers were lost in 2022 and only about 200 last year.

This image from video provided by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute shows fish and other sea life around a shipping container lost from the cargo vessel Med Taipei during a storm in ...

When shipping containers are lost overboard, “Most of them sink. And a lot of times, they’re just in really deep water,” said Jason Rolfe of NOAA’s Marine Debris Program.

FILE - A man looks at the Panamanian-registered container ship MSC Chitra that days earlier collided with the MV-Khalijia-II, a St. Kitts registered ship, in the Arabian Sea near Mumbai, India ...