Up to 10,000 containers a year are lost from ships worldwide and the Insurance Council says they are "floating disasters waiting to happen".
Chief executive Christopher Ryan has issued a warning - to everyone from America's Cup yachtsmen to recreational boaties - that rogue containers bobbing at sea threaten lives.
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