What happens to shipping containers that fall overboard?

While most of the shipping in the world happens via sea, what happens when the massive containers fall overboard? Where do they eventually end up?
NBC Los Angeles

Shipping containers at risk of falling into water at Port of Long Beach

More than two dozen cargo containers were lost overboard due to rough seas and more are at risk of falling into the water in the Port of Long Beach. Video from NewsChopper4 showed some of the ...
KTLA

Containers left hanging from storm-battered ship in Port of Long Beach

U.S. Coast Guard crews have been called in to help secure several containers left dangling and in danger of falling from a cargo ship at the Port of Long Beach. At least 32 containers were lost ...
ABC7

Coast Guard working to offload damaged shipping containers at Port of Long Beach

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- U.S. Coast Guard officials are closely monitoring yet another precarious situation involving a cargo ship at the Port of Long Beach. The OOCL Sunflower, which departed ...
Press-Telegram

Cargo containers, some damaged, being offloaded from ship at Port of Long Beach after rough voyage

A U.S. Coast Guard unified command is overseeing the offloading of cargo this week from a container vessel — OOCL Sunflower — that arrived at the Port of Long Beach after encountering heavy weather ...