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-10533 · Spills2022-11-05 → 2022-11-19
    Port hadlock-irondale, wa, USA
  2. NAVAREA XII 824/22 · Nav aids2022-11-01 → 2022-11-05
    Commdet kodiak, ak remote site ketchikan 55-27N 131-49W transmit and receive services off air
  3. NAVAREA XII 800/22 · Cable ops2022-10-26 → 2022-10-30
    Cable operations in progress until further notice by cableship it intrepid along trackline joining 56-31.00N…
  4. NAVAREA XII 782/22 · Cable ops2022-10-20 → 2022-10-26
    Cable operations in progress until further notice by cableship it intrepid along trackline joining 58-24.00N…
  5. NOAAORR-10516 · Spills2022-09-04 → 2022-09-18
    In the afternoon of 4-SEPT-2022, a seaplane went down on the west side of whidbey island near mutiny bay, wa
  6. NOAAORR-10505 · Spills2022-08-13 → 2022-08-27
    681 smuggler cove, friday harbor, wa
  7. NOAAORR-10500 · Spills2022-08-03 → 2022-08-17
    58-foot fishing vessel sunk, southern point of prince of wales island, ak
  8. NOAAORR-10499 · Spills2022-07-29 → 2022-08-12
    Silverdale, wa, USA
  9. NOAAORR-10491 · Spills2022-07-05 → 2022-07-19
    Neah bay, wa
  10. NOAAORR-10490 · Spills2022-07-01 → 2022-07-15
    50-foot yacht sunk in glacier bay, ak
  11. NOAAORR-10474 · Spills2022-06-15 → 2022-06-29
    Fire on 30' vessel off decatur island, wa
  12. NOAAORR-10458 · Spills2022-05-10 → 2022-05-24
    Spill of ethylhexyl nitrate (diesel additive), cap sante marina, anacortes, wa
  13. NOAAORR-10449 · Spills2022-04-25 → 2022-05-09
    5351 24TH ave nw seattle, wa 98107
  14. NOAAORR-10443 · Spills2022-04-13 → 2022-04-27
    50-foot vessel sunk in hawkes marina, everett, wa
  15. NOAAORR-10431 · Spills2022-03-21 → 2022-04-04
    Tug vessel loses power, grounds, and leaks diesel in neva strait, sitka, ak
  16. NAVAREA XII 162/22 · Nav aids2022-03-16 → 2022-11-01
    Commdet kodiak, ak remote site ketchikan 55-27N 131-49W hf transmit and receive services off air
  17. NAVAREA XII 154/22 · Nav aids2022-03-15 → 2022-03-16
    Uscg remote communication facility ketchikan 55-27N 131-49W broadcast services unreliable
  18. NAVAREA XII 125/22 · Nav aids2022-02-27 → 2022-03-02
    Uscg remote communication facility ketchikan 55-27N 131-49W broadcast services off air 011900Z to 012300Z mar
  19. NOAAORR-10421 · Spills2022-02-22 → 2022-03-08
    Commercial fishing tender sinks in sumner strait, prince of wales island, ak
  20. NOAAORR-10405 · Spills2022-01-06 → 2022-01-20
    Oil sheen at terminal 5, harbor island, seattle

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