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 281/12 · Quakes2012-10-28 → 2012-10-28
    Tsunami warning
  2. NAVAREA XII 280/12 · Quakes2012-10-28 → 2012-10-28
    Tsunami warning
  3. NOAAORR-8511 · Spills2012-09-24 → 2012-10-08
    Swinomish channel, wa
  4. NOAAORR-8504 · Spills2012-08-31 → 2012-09-14
    Fisherman's terminal, seattle
  5. NOAAORR-8485 · Spills2012-07-29 → 2012-08-12
    Prince of wales bay, se alaska
  6. NOAAORR-8484 · Spills2012-07-27 → 2012-08-10
    Cape chacon, se alaska
  7. NAVAREA XII 162/12 · Other2012-06-21 → 2012-06-22
    Pyrotechnics exercises 221500Z to 221700Z jun vicinity 58-23.0N 134-38.9W
  8. NAVAREA XII 135/12 · Nav aids2012-05-17 → 2012-05-18
    Alaska-southeast Coast
  9. HYDROPAC 1392/12 · Nav aids2012-05-17 → 2012-05-17
    Alaska-southeast Coast
  10. NAVAREA XII 130/12 · Nav aids2012-05-14 → 2012-05-15
    Alaska-southeast Coast
  11. NOAAORR-8446 · Spills2012-05-14 → 2012-05-28
    Whidbey island, penn cove, wa
  12. NOAAORR-8440 · Spills2012-05-09 → 2012-05-23
    Neah bay, wa
  13. NOAAORR-8438 · Spills2012-05-04 → 2012-05-18
    Noaa ssc contacted 1400 pst may 4 about leaking container at terminal 18 on harbor island in seattle wa
  14. NAVAREA XII 122/12 · Nav aids2012-05-02 → 2012-05-03
    Alaska-southeast Coast
  15. NOAAORR-8421 · Spills2012-03-19 → 2012-04-02
    Noaa ssc contacted 1200 pst by uscg to provide trajectory support to situation at vigor marine shipyard in…
  16. NAVAREA XII 58/12 · Nav aids2012-03-10 → 2012-03-11
    Alaska-southeast Coast
  17. NOAAORR-8414 · Spills2012-03-09 → 2012-03-23
    Harbor island, seattle,wa
  18. NAVAREA XII 31/12 · Nav aids2012-02-15 → 2012-02-15
    Alaska-southeast Coast
  19. NAVAREA XII 11/12 · Nav aids2012-01-10 → 2012-02-01
    Alaska-southeast Coast
  20. NAVAREA XII 9/12 · Nav aids2012-01-09 → 2012-01-09
    Alaska-southeast Coast

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