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. USGS-USP000F21Q · Quakes2007-01-09 → 2007-01-12
    59 km wsw of mosquito lake, alaska
  2. NAVAREA XII 219/06 · Nav aids2006-08-29 → 2006-08-31
    Level island dgps station 56-28.1N 133-04.8W off air 311800Z to 312000Z aug
  3. NOAAORR-6114 · Spills2006-08-27 → 2006-09-10
    Conoco-phillips SO2; ferndale, wa
  4. NOAAORR-6110 · Spills2006-08-08 → 2006-08-22
    Eagle cove, san juan island, wa
  5. NOAAORR-6072 · Spills2006-04-09 → 2006-04-23
    Elliot bay, wa
  6. NOAAORR-6069 · Spills2006-03-17 → 2006-03-31
    A sheen of unknown origin was reported at 6:30 a.m
  7. NAVAREA XII 59/06 · Nav aids2006-03-07 → 2006-03-08
    Level island dgps station 56-28.1N 133-04.8W at reduced power
  8. NOAAORR-1281 · Spills2005-04-26 → 2005-05-10
    Admiralty inlet, puget sound, wa
  9. NOAAORR-1230 · Spills2004-10-14 → 2004-10-28
    Dalco passage, tacoma, wa
  10. NOAAORR-1220 · Spills2004-09-21 → 2004-10-05
    In the early morning hours sept
  11. NOAAORR-1213 · Spills2004-09-14 → 2004-09-28
    Se alaska, ak
  12. NOAAORR-1203 · Spills2004-08-13 → 2004-08-27
    Alki beach, wa
  13. NOAAORR-1188 · Spills2004-06-29 → 2004-07-13
    Ammonia leak from derelict F/V; verbal/aloha 2. threat: chemical
  14. NOAAORR-1182 · Spills2004-06-09 → 2004-06-23
    Southeast alaska, ak
  15. NOAAORR-1185 · Spills2004-05-25 → 2004-06-08
    Lake washington, wa
  16. NOAAORR-1172 · Spills2004-05-11 → 2004-05-25
    Peril strait, ak
  17. NOAAORR-1136 · Spills2004-01-01 → 2004-01-15
    Yacht coll.; 500 gal #2; fire in marina; wx/verbal 2. threat: oil
  18. NOAAORR-1135 · Spills2003-12-30 → 2004-01-13
    A release of oil occured during transfer from a foss maritime shore facility to a barge
  19. NOAAORR-1109 · Spills2003-10-29 → 2003-11-12
    Off foul weather bluff, hood canal, wa
  20. NOAAORR-1082 · Spills2003-07-24 → 2003-08-07
    Aminoethylpiperazine released from a container onboard M/V axel maersk

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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