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| | Shipping Emergencies - Search and Rescue | | |  When maritime nations gathered together in 1914 to develop the first international shipping safety convention, following the Titanic disaster two years earlier, the focus was not just on preventing shipping accidents but also improving the changes of survival if one should occur. | | | | Shipping Emergencies - The GMDSS | | |  The basic concept of the GMDSS is that search and rescue authorities ashore, as well as shipping in the immediate vicinity of the ship in distress, will be rapidly alerted to a distress incident so they can assist in a co·ordinated search and rescue operation with the minimum of delay. The system also provides for urgency and safety communications and the dissemination of maritime safety information, including navigational and meteorological warnings. This means that every ship will be able, irrespective of the area in which it operates, to perform those communication functions considered essential for the safety of the ship itself and of other ships operating in the same area.
See More... | | | | Places of refuge - the problem of providing places of refuge to vessels in distress | | |  In response to the Erika incident of December 1999. the need to review the issues surrounding places of refuge was included in a list of measures drawn at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) aimed at enhancing safety and minimizing the risk of oil pollution, drawn up in December 2000 Further urgency to the work came in the aftermath of the incident involving the fully laden tanker Castor which, in December 2000, developed a structural problem in the Mediterranean Sea. The ship was towed around the Mediterranean for over a month before a place could be found where a successful lightering operation could be carried out. In early 2001, the then IMO Secretary-General Mr. William O'Neil determined that the time had come for IMO to undertake, as a matter of priority, a global consideration of this problem and to adopt whatever measures might be required to ensure that ships in distress would be provided with appropriate assistance and facilities as dictated by the circumstances. The November 2001 sinking of the Prestige further highlighted the issue.
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 | | | | | | | Title | IMO: GMDSS handbook.
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|  | | Author(s) / Editor(s) | IMO | | Description | IMO: GMDSS handbook. 3rd ed. 2001 edition. Also available on CD-ROM The Handbook is divided into eights sections and several substantial annexes: Part 1 introduces the background to the GMDSS, including its history and development ; Part 2 describes the basic functions of the GMDSS ; Part 3 outlines the various communications systems within the GMDSS ; Part 4 lays down requirements for the carriage of GMDSS equipment; Part 5 describes the method of operation of the various radio services within the GMDSS ; Part 6 focuses on the shore-based side of the GMDSSS ; Part 7 presents the Master Plan for the GMDSS ; Part 8 offers guidance on maintenance of equipment. The annexes give comprehensive information on all aspects of the GMDSS, including primary texts such as: relevant amendments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention and resolutions of the 1979 SAR Convention ; relevant IMO Assembly resolutions, MSC and COM circulars, articles of the Radio Regulations, resolutions of WARC and WARC-Mob conferences ; IMO performance standards and related ITU-R recommendations; the Master Plan for the GMDSSS ; COSPAS-SARSAT system data. | | Keywords | SEARCH AND RESCUE; SAR; GMDSS; EMERGENCIES; IMO | |
| Content Language(s) | English | |
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| Type of Book | Book | | Purchase Info URL | http://www.imo.org/home.asp?topic_id=426 | | Publisher | IMO | |
| Publication Date | 2001 | |
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| Reference Info | | Series ID | IMO-97OE | Volume/Issue Number | 3rd ed. |
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1076 Topics - 5135 Related Knowledge - 2534 Members - 34 Editors |
