Over 20,000 shipping containers have fallen overboard since 2010, their contents polluting shorelines and habitats. ... They're the detritus of commercial shipping containers lost in the open ocean.

Cargo ships can lose anywhere from a single container to hundreds at a time in rough seas. Experts disagree on how many are lost each year. The World Shipping Council, an industry group, reports ...

Cargo ships can lose anywhere from a single container to hundreds at a time in rough seas. Experts disagree on how many are lost each year. The World Shipping Council, an industry group, reports ...

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.

Cargo ships can lose anywhere from a single container to hundreds at a time in rough seas. Experts disagree on how many are lost each year. The World Shipping Council, an industry group, reports ...

Fish and other sea life around a shipping container lost from the cargo vessel Med Taipei during a storm in February 2004, found around 1,280 meters (4,200 feet) below the surface of the Monterey ...

They’re the detritus of commercial shipping containers lost in the open ocean. ... More than 20,000 shipping containers have tumbled overboard in the last decade and a half.