MRCCMRCC FORTFORT DEDE FRANCEFRANCE Centre Régional Opérationnel de Surveillance et de Sauvetage Antilles-Guyane (CROSS AG)
UN/USA Satellite-Aided SAR Station déportée de Pic Paradis (Saint-Martin)
Pic Paradis coastal station (Saint-Martin)
Rémire-Montjoly (Guyane) CROSSAG/MRCCCROSSAG/MRCC FortFort dede FranceFrance
• Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre (MRCC) established in 1992 in Fort de France • Equipment & transport department (Regional Direction of Maritime Affairs for Antilles & French Guyana) • Sar Mission Co-ordinator (SMC) for French Search & Rescue Region (716 cases in 2008) • Strengthening since 2001 (staff, new VHF network, new building) 5 MISSIONS
• Maritime search and rescue
• Maritime safety broadcasting
• Shipping watch
• Fishing watch
• Pollution watch FRENCHFRENCH S.R.R.S.R.R. (3 millions km2)
FRANCE CROSS Antilles - Guyane SRR
MRSC Cayenne MRSC Cayenne
. Main center : MRCC Fort de France . Sub-center : MRSC Cayenne Caribbean SAR Centres
RCC Miami
MRCC Habana RCC Nassau
MRCC Georgetown RCC San Juan MRCC Semanah
MRCC Kingston
RCC MRCC Fort de France Managua
RCC Curaçao
MRCC Cartagena MRCC La Guaira MRCC MRCC Port of Spain Limon
MRCC Georgetown
MRCC Paramaribo Cooperation inside the French Antilles SRR
ANGUILLA RPF
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES CG (ST Marteen)
ST KITTS ANTIGUA & BARBUDA DFCG & NEVIS CG MONTSERRAT DFCG
FRANCE SRR DOMINICA MPU
CROSS AG /MRCC Fort de France
STE LUCIE MPU
MPU : Marine Police Unit RPF : Royal Police Force DFCG : Defence Force Coast Guard SAR assets : ships SAR assets : helo SAR assets: airplanes COMMUNICATION MEANS
•VHF •MF/HF • 2 INMARSAT EARTH STATIONS • PHONE+FAX+E-MAIL… CURRENT VHF NETWORK
Pic Paradis
Piton Sainte Rose Morne à Louis
Beauregard Vieux Fort Grand Rivière La Caravelle
Le Marin Bellefontaine AIS PROSPECT SATELLITE AIDED SAR FOR MRCC FDF • SPOC INSIDE FRENCH SRR
• SPOC FOR ALL SHIPS FLAGGED UNDER COUNTRIES INSIDE FRENCH SRR (ANTIGUA§BARBUDA, ANGUILLA, DOMINICA, ST KITTS§NEVIS, ST LUCIA) COSPAS-SARSAT
FMCC France Mission Control Center
USMCC United States Mission Control Center
FMCC France Mission Control Center SPMCC SPOC : MRCC FDF Spain Mission Control Center
BRMCC Brazil Mission Control Center 2008 STATISTICS
Phone Means of alert 42% Flares, rockets,... 4% EPIRB 33%
Inmarsat VHF/MF/HF 1% 20% 2008 STATISTICS
EPIRB SAR result Distress confirmed (9) No result 3% (108) 37%
False alert confirmed (176) 60% 2008 STATISTICS
Flags involved
Autres (30) 10% Usa (25) France (73) 9% 25% Dominica (12) 4% Panama (5) St Kitts & Nevis 2% (29) 10% Antigua & Barbuda (54) Unknown (54) UK (8) 18% 19% 3% Wishes for future
• International updated database
• Satellite pictures
• PLBs to be fully involved
• Communications to be developed ThankThank youyou forfor youryour attentionattention