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. NOAAORR-6923 · Spills1993-01-23 → 1993-02-06
    Port townsend, wa
  2. NOAAORR-6908 · Spills1992-11-22 → 1992-12-06
    Frederick sound, alaska
  3. NOAAORR-6851 · Spills1991-12-08 → 1991-12-22
    M/V president madison; west duwamish waterway seattle, washington
  4. NOAAORR-6836 · Spills1991-09-16 → 1991-09-30
    On september 16, 1991, the fishing vessel omnisea, a 324-foot fish processor undergoing repairs, was…
  5. NOAAORR-6811 · Spills1991-05-18 → 1991-06-01
    Mystery Spill11; straits of juan de fuca, washington
  6. NOAAORR-6792 · Spills1991-02-23 → 1991-03-09
    Noaa ssc notified at 0135, february 23, by lcdr mike smith, mso puget sound of a spill at the texaco…
  7. NOAAORR-9974 · Spills1990-08-30 → 1990-09-13
    August 30, 1990, at 2332 the U.S
  8. NOAAORR-6724 · Spills1989-09-09 → 1989-09-23
    Lazaria island, sitka, alaska
  9. NOAAORR-6715 · Spills1989-08-12 → 1989-08-26
    Sitkoh bay, chatham strait, alaska
  10. NOAAORR-6714 · Spills1989-08-12 → 1989-08-26
    Tongass narrows, ketchikan, alaska
  11. NOAAORR-6679 · Spills1989-03-14 → 1989-03-28
    A check valve between an accumulator tank and a feeder pump at ketchikan pulp corporation blew out on the…
  12. NOAAORR-6655 · Spills1989-01-23 → 1989-02-06
    Prince of wales island, alaska
  13. NOAAORR-6635 · Spills1988-11-28 → 1988-12-12
    Nehenta bay, gravina island, alaska
  14. NOAAORR-6604 · Spills1988-08-19 → 1988-09-02
    Otstoia island, peril straits, alaska
  15. NOAAORR-6602 · Spills1988-08-12 → 1988-08-26
    On august 12, 1988, the U.S
  16. NOAAORR-6586 · Spills1988-07-04 → 1988-07-18
    San juan island, washington
  17. NOAAORR-6580 · Spills1988-06-07 → 1988-06-21
    Mystery Spill6; orcas island, washington
  18. NOAAORR-6575 · Spills1988-05-20 → 1988-06-03
    Noaa/oma was notified of the situation at 1130 on may 20, 1988, by the U.S
  19. NOAAORR-6571 · Spills1988-04-28 → 1988-05-12
    Whiskey creek, washington
  20. NOAAORR-6563 · Spills1988-03-18 → 1988-04-01
    At approximately 1130 pst the noaa ssc was notified by the coast guard of a spill of 100 bbl of north slope…

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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