Spills & pollution incidents in 2021

Oil and chemical spills, groundings and vessel casualties with a pollution threat: NOAA IncidentNews responses since 1957, and spill-response areas broadcast as navigational warnings.

issued in 2021
153
still in force
0
vs 2020
-8%
first · last
01-13 · 12-22

By month

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By NAVAREA series

  • NOAA IncidentNews153

Where · top seas

North Pacific Ocean5133%
Gulf of Mexico3020%
North Atlantic Ocean3020%
The Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia1912%
Bering Sea75%
Gulf of Alaska75%
Caribbean Sea32%
Chukchi Sea32%
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin21%
Laccadive Sea11%

All spills & pollution incidents issued in 2021 · 153

  1. NOAAORR-102212021-01-21 → 2021-02-04
    M/V maersk essen; 455 nm north of oahu, hi
  2. NOAAORR-102202021-01-19 → 2021-02-02
    Tpic in situ burn, south pass 24, la; 9, la, USA
  3. NOAAORR-102192021-01-13 → 2021-01-27
    MV kempton; christiansted, st croix 00820, usvi

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