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-10798 · Spills2024-06-07 → 2024-06-21
    Plane crash near jones island; jones island marine state park, wa
  2. NOAAORR-10785 · Spills2024-05-14 → 2024-05-28
    Fishing vessel north american sinking, ballard ship canal; seattle, wa
  3. NOAAORR-10783 · Spills2024-05-10 → 2024-05-24
    4023 mayne ln, ferndale, wa 98248, USA
  4. NOAAORR-10778 · Spills2024-05-03 → 2024-05-17
    Commercial fishing vessel sunk; henry island, san juan islands, wa
  5. NOAAORR-10779 · Spills2024-05-01 → 2024-05-15
    Sheen reported in fishermen’s bend, statter harbor, auke bay, juneau, ak
  6. NOAAORR-10771 · Spills2024-04-17 → 2024-05-01
    Squaxin island l, wa, USA
  7. NAVAREA XII 254/24 · Towing2024-04-15 → 2024-04-17
    The ocean cleanup system operations in progress by M/V maersk trader and M/V maersk tender towing 800 meter…
  8. NOAAORR-10770 · Spills2024-04-15 → 2024-04-29
    Dungeness spit, wa, USA
  9. NOAAORR-10755 · Spills2024-03-14 → 2024-03-28
    On march 14, 2024, the navy osc notified noaa ssc of a spill from a pipeline that transports bilge slops…
  10. NAVAREA XII 88/24 · Nav aids2024-02-20 → 2024-02-21
    NAVTEX station digby island (d) 54-17.85N 130-25.10W off air
  11. NOAAORR-10724 · Spills2024-01-24 → 2024-02-07
    On january 24, 2024, uscg sector southeast alaska reported they were responding to eight sunken vessels…
  12. NOAAORR-10718 · Spills2024-01-17 → 2024-01-31
    On january 17, 2024, the uscg sector puget sound notified the noaa ssc nw that the M/V oz went aground…
  13. NOAAORR-10721 · Spills2024-01-11 → 2024-01-25
    7305 beach dr e, port orchard, wa 98366, USA
  14. NOAAORR-10713 · Spills2023-12-29 → 2024-01-12
    Ketchikan, ak, USA
  15. NOAAORR-10711 · Spills2023-12-18 → 2024-01-01
    3443 w marginal way sw, seattle, wa 98106
  16. NAVAREA XII 860/23 · Nav aids2023-12-12 → 2023-12-13
    NAVTEX station digby island (d) 54-18.05N 130-24.17W off air
  17. NOAAORR-10705 · Spills2023-12-10 → 2023-12-24
    Olympic pipeline gasoline spill at conway station; skagit county, wa
  18. NOAAORR-10694 · Spills2023-11-20 → 2023-12-04
    525 deer harbor rd, eastsound, wa 98245
  19. NOAAORR-10685 · Spills2023-10-28 → 2023-11-11
    Sitka, ak, USA
  20. NOAAORR-10683 · Spills2023-10-25 → 2023-11-08
    Snohomish county, 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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