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%
Towing10%
Wrecks10%
Derelicts10%

Archive · 639 cancelled

  1. NAVAREA XII 93/08 · Nav aids2008-03-15 → 2008-03-15
    Nga chart 17300 (31ST ed)
  2. NAVAREA XII 92/08 · Nav aids2008-03-15 → 2008-03-15
    Nga chart 17300 (31ST ed)
  3. NAVAREA XII 80/08 · Nav aids2008-03-06 → 2008-03-15
    Nga chart 17434 (13TH ed)
  4. NOAAORR-7787 · Spills2008-03-05 → 2008-03-19
    On march 5, 2008 between 0030-0238hrs, an estimated 10 lbs of nitrogen oxide gas was released from a flare…
  5. NAVAREA XII 74/08 · Nav aids2008-03-03 → 2008-03-05
    Nga chart 17434 (13TH ed)
  6. NAVAREA XII 72/08 · Nav aids2008-03-02 → 2008-03-02
    Nga chart 17420 (28TH ed)
  7. NOAAORR-7780 · Spills2008-02-22 → 2008-03-07
    Chemical release port of seattle; terminal 5, seattle, wa
  8. NAVAREA XII 55/08 · Nav aids2008-02-20 → 2008-03-02
    Nga chart 17434 (13TH ed)
  9. NOAAORR-7777 · Spills2008-02-18 → 2008-03-03
    Prince of wales isl., se alaska
  10. NOAAORR-7766 · Spills2008-02-03 → 2008-02-17
    Seattle police department and uscg sector seattle contacted the hdo on sunday morning february 3 to report…
  11. NAVAREA XII 29/08 · Nav aids2008-01-28 → 2008-01-30
    Nga chart 17434 (13TH ed)
  12. NOAAORR-7730 · Spills2007-12-11 → 2007-12-25
    At approximately 0115 december 11 uscg sector seattle notified the hdo that a fishing vessel had released…
  13. NOAAORR-7725 · Spills2007-12-05 → 2007-12-19
    Harbor island, seattle, wa
  14. NOAAORR-7717 · Spills2007-11-23 → 2007-12-07
    George inlet, se alaska
  15. NAVAREA XII 315/07 · Nav aids2007-11-16 → 2007-11-22
    Nga chart 17300 (31ST ed)
  16. NAVAREA XII 300/07 · Nav aids2007-11-07 → 2007-11-07
    Nga chart 17300 (31ST ed)
  17. NOAAORR-7686 · Spills2007-08-18 → 2007-09-01
    Revillagigedo channel, ak
  18. NAVAREA XII 183/07 · Surveys2007-07-31 → 2007-10-11
    Survey operations 10 aug thru 10 oct by M/V davidson, M/V R2, M/V D2, and M/V ua in area bound by 58-00.606N…
  19. NOAAORR-7678 · Spills2007-07-25 → 2007-08-08
    Sunshine cove, ak
  20. NOAAORR-7662 · Spills2007-06-19 → 2007-07-03
    Burton beach, quartermaster harbor, wa

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

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