An informed decision maker is an effective decision maker
March 24, 2020 – The Search and Rescue (SAR) team aboard USS Stethem recently completed their search and rescue certification (SARCERT). The certification included material and administrative checks, exercises to recover a man overboard using both the Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) and foc’sle and a test of competency in plotting man overboard. “The SARCERT was a challenging certification where…
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March 20, 2020 (Google Translation) – Monday March 16, 2020, the Falcon 50M maritime surveillance aircraft of the French elements in Senegal took off on alert at 15:56. Objective for the crew: search and find a Senegalese fishing trawler with 9 people on board, missing from the radio waves for more than 24 hours. “The crew took off on the…
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March 19, 2020 (Google Translation) – In the water area of Peter the Great Bay off the coast of Vladivostok, a special search and rescue exercise was conducted in which rescue personnel from the fleet on duty, naval aviation pilots and Pacific Fleet medical specialists were involved. According to the scenario of the exercise, as a result of the accident,…
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March 3, 2020 – USS Ross (DDG 71) conducted lifesaving emergency search-and-rescue operations for a civilian Turkish vessel in the Sea of Marmara while conducting her southbound transit from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, March 3, 2020. Late Tuesday morning, lookouts onboard Ross spotted smoke plumes rising from a small vessel in the Sea of Marmara. Ross quickly…
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