So me and my buddies were talking and we came up with a hypothetical and we're not really sure what the proper thing to do would be. Say we were out fishing, and we noticed stuff in the water, say a couple life jackets, floating debris and other signs that a vessel may have gone down. Do you call that in on channel 16 as a pan pan or do you give some other notice?

Hello fellow seafarers.
I am currently conducting research on the compatibility of integrating drones into search and rescue operations with Plymouth University maritime science and require your opinion.

Drones are an emerging technology that is being rapidly adopted for different purposes across many industries. As the early-stage technology continues to improve it becomes evident that the utilization of drones for ensuring efficient and effective SAR missions has emerged as a promising technological solution, Potentially Improving the response time of Search and rescue and preventing unnecessary loss of life.

Do you believe they could be utilised as a life saving tool or do you think the barriers to the technology overshadow the benefits.
please let me know your opinion and fill out the following very short survey

https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/plymouth/drones-in-s-r

Thank you
Dan S

I work as maritime security (I shoot at pirates) for a PMSC. The pay and hours are very good but the Somalians are pissed for good reasons. In my job there are some grey areas and others outright pitch black... Thinking about changing career to SAR, you guys don't see many dubious moral lines crossed on a daily basis I presume, don't mind even if means a pay cut. I'm in my mid 30s, in top physical condition (ex Italian Marine), with army medic training, about 300 hours diving experience, has a license to fly small planes (only float planes so far). What courses/certificate or in-house training I need to get into SAR?

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The following is just my ranting after a few beers with my buds which got deleted repeatedly and I really don't know where to put it :

I wanted to comment on a post from a few days ago about an minor conflict in Rotterdam (or Amsterdam?) in which a guy bragged about protecting a girl from very aggressive physical harassment. However we were just about to set sail so we had no good internet for a few days (and I got paid to man my post with little spare time) and now the post seems to be deleted. I'm not even sure where OP was posted since I can't find it now obviously...

I don't normally post online, since the internet (including reddit for example who also has to serve its masters) and the press at large are usually fxxked. For example, people read about Somalian pirates, but who asked why?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmaXAtS_3sg

I'm proud to say one of the killed journalists is from my village. You can kill an Italian man, but never scare one!

Another example, how many people outside of the academia read about the Covid in Italy in Sep 2019 ?

search for "giovanni apolone istituto tumori covid" You get no results whatsoever from the media in Italian, the rest are only medical journals, good thing I can understand them because of my medical trainings (from my Italian marine days).

If you search in English, only "popular" press reporting it is Reuters (if you can call it that), and it still implies "might SPREAD beyond china earlier than thought" Well done, Reuters, you guys, and every generation of your peers have to suck a different group's male tubular organ. Understandable.

Yet another example, in the early 2000s, when I was still a solider boy. A diplomat's daughter from a wealthy family, my girlfriend back then, offered to buy me a trip to China as my birthday gift because I mentioned to her once I would love to see the great wall and the forbidden city. Another girl, a judge's daughter from a less wealthy but still quite rich family, went with us (a third wheel as one calls in English lol). Yes we saw the Great Wall, it was great. However, me and the judge's daughter (unlike me a dummy from a poor family, she is a polyglot AND Mensa member by the way ) were shocked, when we saw a church, then a mosque, then another mosque, then another mosque then churches in quick succession when we were driving in the Chinese countryside. We Italians are chatterboxes but we were like frozen in shock for half a hour. My wealthy ex girlfriend said to us with a sly smile after we came out of shock "That's how men are ruled" "è così che le masse sono governate" (through control and manipulation of information you dummies, including myself). Even a polyglot with 140 IQ was fooled, think about the rest of us the regular folks. If you subscribed to the major news outlets, you are fxxed in 3 places then sideways!!! Way too many examples like this as I traveled more and more around this world.

I went into a few of those churches by the way. They are mostly protestant churches and their aesthetics have something to be desired. (Maybe the Chinese find Catholic decor to be too lavish and expensive? lol) One of priests can speak a bit of Italian but he's Chinese living in the middle of nowhere and he has a pizza oven at home! and wanted us to show him how to make pizza better!! Sorry but not every Italian can live up to their stereotype these days especially youngsters.

Anyway, now you see how verbose some Italians are sometimes:) I want to comment on a post I saw earlier. It's about an minor conflict in Rotterdam (or Amsterdam?) When a guy bragged about protecting a girl from harassment. I wanted to comment on the post, but we were just about to set sail so we had no good internet for a few days and now the post seems to be deleted.

The guy seem to be trained in Chin Na (funny it spells almost like China lol) a form of locking technique similar to jujutsu. However, like jujutsu it's only effective at subduing one opponent at a time. When facing multiple opponents, this is dangerous if after subduing one bandit, the rest didn't disperse.

My recommendations:

Those guys are more than likely gangster wannabes. They are often more dangerous than real gangsters. Real gangster have organizations, bosses and their own code to some degree protecting people living on their turf. Trust me on this my grandparents are all from Capua.

Chances are, if you incidentally walked into a bad neighborhood, southern Rotterdam I presume, there would be a real gang member or a few even watching the street. Your first choice should be making a lot of noise. The real gangster could be playing with his phone nearby so he didn't take notice. If he did take notice, in many neighborhoods it's his JOB to shoo away the wannabes. Also the majority of people living in even bad neighborhoods are decent people. They are more than likely to have a few cousins in gangs or at least friendly with gang members so while they could be regular working people, they are not too afraid of gangs. Make some noise, they are more than likely to help you or at least exert social pressure on the wannabes.

A US cop friend of mine used to tell me when a gang is more worried about other gangs than the police, then it's a bad neighborhood. It means chaos and lack of police authority. Sadly, there are now many more such areas in both US and EU where the police has given up( Parts of Paris, Marsiglia since a long time ago, Rotterdam, Anterp, etc etc )

Fighting multiple guys right away is not recommended. If a fight is inevitable, how do you protect the girl even if you can take care of yourself. Your best choice should be controlling a chocking point where you can facilitate the girl's safe retreat. It's not the ideal choice still, if you can't retreat to safety yourself (because the girls can't run very fast I assume) or if you can't take down all of the bandits, be ready to take a bad beating protecting the girl. Curl up and protect your vital points (eyes, throat, groins) Since the guy put up the post can do a "throw" so I'd assume he's bigger and better built than average and can withstand a beating better. It's even recommended protocol for special forces ( who look down on us Lagunari lol we'll kick your asses under water) with confronting civil disturbance.

I'm familiar with Dutch police's "de-escalation" doctrine however I don't fully agree with it. It has more to do with political correctness than practicality and fairness. "De-escalation" is OK but you also have to show strength even when you are not acting. Don't rely on violence, only use it very rarely when absolutely necessary, but you have to show the bandits your "potential of violence" is very real. Some crime bosses and soldiers (many of both are real psychopaths by the way) who have killed at close range can scare away the wannabes with a stare. However it's not realistic since most of us including myself can't do it. I have never killed.

As some of you are search and rescue experts I wanted to ask a few questions as I will be a merchant marine soon and get a little anxious over a ship wreck. My questions is what should a proper mariner do if his (300ft+) vessel encounters a very fast violent problem such as hull breaking half or rouge wave smashing hole through ship and flooding it faster than what can be fixed, basically if all hell breaks loose, no slowly sinking to the bottom, just pure chaos. Do maritime honor still exist at this point or is it every man for himself, do we have a proper procedure?

Hi everyone,

the blackout is over and reddit did not change their stance at all. I remain pessimistic about reddits future as a community-driven platform.

In the meantime I started a new maritime Search and Rescue community on lemmy. You can find it at https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/maritime_sar

You just need a lemmy account to join - not necessarily on https://discuss.tchncs.de - any other lemmy instance should work, too.

I will keep this subreddit clean from spam, but won't contribute to it anymore through new posts.

I hope to see you over there, but even if not - thank you for having been part of this community.

streamlin3d

r/maritimeSAR will be joining in on the June 12th-14th protest of Reddit's API changes that will essentially kill all 3rd party Reddit apps.

What's going on?

A recent Reddit policy change threatens to kill many beloved third-party mobile apps, making a great many quality-of-life features not seen in the official mobile app permanently inaccessible to users.

On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced they were raising the price to make calls to their API from being free to a level that will kill every third party app on Reddit, from Apollo to Reddit is Fun to Narwhal to BaconReader.

Even if you're not a mobile user and don't use any of those apps, this is a step toward killing other ways of customizing Reddit, such as Reddit Enhancement Suite or the use of the old.reddit.com desktop interface .

This isn't only a problem on the user level: many subreddit moderators depend on tools only available outside the official app to keep their communities on-topic and spam-free.

What time will r/maritimeSAR go dark?

r/maritimeSAR will go dark around 12AM UTC+2.

Some personal words

I created this subreddit nearly 6 years ago to facilitate discussions and create awareness about maritime Search and Rescue, with a focus on volunteer organizations.

I am personally not very hopeful about reddit reversing course substantially enough to make me feel good about contributing to their bottom line for free again. But I'd love to keep the idea of this subreddit alive. Maybe on a different medium (fediverse?), but I haven't made a decision on that yet. Should that become reality I will link to it here.

I am really happy that so many people (at least for me) showed interest in this subreddit, after it stayed very small for most of its existence. Thank you all, and see you on the other side!