The Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia

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

in force
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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. NOAAORR-1064 · Spills2003-05-29 → 2003-06-12
    Maersk terminal tacoma, wa
  2. NOAAORR-7584 · Spills2001-10-05 → 2001-10-19
    Friday morning around 0200 - 0230 (2) 4000 gallons fuel tanks were punctured on a northbound train
  3. NOAAORR-7577 · Spills2001-08-29 → 2001-09-12
    Cherry point, wa
  4. NOAAORR-7565 · Spills2001-06-13 → 2001-06-27
    Mso puget sound received a report that spill of approximately 50 barrels of alaska north slope crude…
  5. NOAAORR-7546 · Spills2001-03-15 → 2001-03-29
    At about 0700 pst, thursday, march 15, a barge lost approximately 1,000 gallons of gasoline from a crack
  6. USGS-UW10530748 · Quakes2001-02-28 → 2001-03-03
    7 km sse of longbranch, washington
  7. NOAAORR-7538 · Spills2001-01-29 → 2001-02-12
    William snd; port angeles harbor, wa
  8. NOAAORR-7520 · Spills2000-11-18 → 2000-12-02
    Port walter, ak
  9. NOAAORR-7498 · Spills2000-06-10 → 2000-06-24
    Puget sound, wa
  10. NOAAORR-7474 · Spills2000-02-29 → 2000-03-14
    Chatham strait and frederick sound, alaska
  11. NOAAORR-7422 · Spills1999-07-27 → 1999-08-10
    MV spirit of 98; tracy arm, ak
  12. NOAAORR-7421 · Spills1999-07-27 → 1999-08-10
    M/V spirit of 98; tracey arm, southeast alaska
  13. NOAAORR-7411 · Spills1999-07-01 → 1999-07-15
    On the afternoon of july 1, 1999, the uscg juneau communications center and mso juneau received a call from…
  14. NOAAORR-7410 · Spills1999-06-27 → 1999-07-11
    At 1355 mso puget sound was notified by tosco refinery that 25 bbls of alaskan north slope crude oil had…
  15. NOAAORR-7406 · Spills1999-06-12 → 1999-06-26
    Dundas bay, alaska
  16. NOAAORR-7315 · Spills1998-07-13 → 1998-07-27
    Lake union, wa
  17. NOAAORR-7256 · Spills1998-01-03 → 1998-01-17
    Commencment bay, tacoma, wa
  18. NOAAORR-7252 · Spills1997-12-24 → 1998-01-07
    Date: december 24, 1997 1400 pdt - to: noaa ssc ed levine - from: noaa/hazardous materials response team,…
  19. NOAAORR-7223 · Spills1997-08-19 → 1997-09-02
    On the evening of august 18, 1997, a 2,000-gallon tank of asphalt emulsion was being unloaded from a barge…
  20. NOAAORR-7201 · Spills1997-05-10 → 1997-05-24
    George inlet, ketchikan, alaska

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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