The Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia

IHO sea area 59 · -137° to -122° E, 47° to 59° N

in force
1
last 12 months
14
archive messages
640
categories
9

What the archive shows

640 messages are recorded since 1984-07-27 for the The Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. The selection uses the IHO sea area; a message may describe an exercise, equipment outage or continuing operation as well as a hazard report.

Spills accounts for 351 of 640 recorded messages (55%), the largest category group in this selection.

The NGA historical archive froze in 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. Counts around that gap are incomplete, and changes in reporting volume do not establish changes in incident frequency.

In force now · 1

  1. NOAAORR-11221 · Spills2026-09-21
    An overturned hydrogen tank truck in Bellingham, Washington, on September 21, 2026, poses a chemical threat with no obvious leak, and modeling is requested.

Longest in force

  1. NOAAORR-11221 · Spills2026-09-21
    An overturned hydrogen tank truck in Bellingham, Washington, on September 21, 2026, poses a chemical threat with no obvious leak, and modeling is requested.

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By category · available archive

Spills35155%
Nav aids25239%
Other234%
Quakes51%
Surveys41%
Cable ops20%
Wrecks10%
Towing10%
Derelicts10%

Archive · 639 cancelled

  1. NAVAREA XII 176/19 · Nav aids2019-05-14 → 2019-05-16
    Biorka dgps station 56-51.3N 135-32.4W off air
  2. NAVAREA XII 168/19 · Nav aids2019-05-10 → 2019-06-12
    Annette island dgps station 55-04.1N 131-36.0W unreliable
  3. NOAAORR-9899 · Spills2019-05-09 → 2019-05-23
    Smith island grounding, near smith island, wa; near smith island, wa
  4. NOAAORR-9896 · Spills2019-05-07 → 2019-05-21
    Spanish islands, alaska
  5. NAVAREA XII 90/19 · Nav aids2019-03-05 → 2019-06-12
    Annette island dgps station 55-04.1N 131-36.0W unusable
  6. NOAAORR-9861 · Spills2019-02-28 → 2019-03-14
    February 28, 2019 - an unknown quantity of transformer oil was released into the deschutes river from the…
  7. NOAAORR-9858 · Spills2019-02-27 → 2019-03-13
    Admiralty island, alaska
  8. NOAAORR-9849 · Spills2019-02-10 → 2019-02-24
    Trawler aground swinomish channel, puget sound; north end of swinomish channel, anacortes, wa
  9. NOAAORR-9844 · Spills2019-02-02 → 2019-02-16
    February 02, 2019, 1015 pst - noaa erd was contacted by uscg sector puget sound responding to bunker c…
  10. NAVAREA XII 545/18 · Nav aids2018-12-06 → 2018-12-06
    Annette island dgps station 55-04.1N 131-36.0W at reduced power
  11. NOAAORR-9797 · Spills2018-09-21 → 2018-10-05
    San juan islands, wa
  12. NOAAORR-9751 · Spills2018-07-03 → 2018-07-17
    On july 02, 2018, the F/V leona, a 33' wooden fishing vessel with approximately 140 gallons of diesel fuel…
  13. NAVAREA XII 258/18 · Nav aids2018-06-28 → 2018-06-29
    Annette island dgps station 55-04.1N 131-36.0W unreliable
  14. NAVAREA XII 241/18 · Nav aids2018-06-18 → 2018-06-19
    Gustavus dgps station 58-25.1N 135-41.8W unusable until further notice
  15. NOAAORR-9730 · Spills2018-06-05 → 2018-06-19
    Eastsound, wa, USA
  16. NAVAREA XII 162/18 · Nav aids2018-04-19 → 2018-04-19
    Annette island dgps station 55-04.1N 131-36.0W unreliable
  17. NAVAREA XII 155/18 · Nav aids2018-04-16 → 2018-04-17
    Gustavus dgps station 58-25.1N 135-41.8W unusable
  18. NOAAORR-9684 · Spills2018-03-08 → 2018-03-22
    Tug chief (salvage operation); salmon bay, lake washington ship canal, wa
  19. NAVAREA XII 62/18 · Nav aids2018-02-05 → 2018-02-05
    Annette island dgps station 55-04.1N 131-36.0W unusable
  20. NAVAREA XII 16/18 · Nav aids2018-01-12 → 2018-01-15
    Gustavus dgps station 58-25.1N 135-41.8W unreliable

Sea boundaries: Flanders Marine Institute (2018), IHO Sea Areas v3, marineregions.org (CC BY 4.0). Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA / coastal broadcasts.