Drift calculation – support for the Search and Rescue System

In the Navy, the operation and forecasting of drift of shipwrecks, objects and the evolution of hydrocarbon spills on the sea surface is ensured by the Hydrographic Institute (HI), through the Geospatial, Meteorological and Oceanographic Maritime Center.

In order to support the Search and Rescue System, the IH runs, when requested, the model to calculate the drift of objects on the surface of the sea, in order to respond to the area where operations in the rescue of human lives should focus.

In this context, we recovered here a Navy video about a simulacrum of a rescue operation, carried out in 2017.

In the exercise, conducted by a training and evaluation team of the Navy, belonging to the Integrated Training and Naval Evaluation Center, a missing “nauf” was rescued at sea and the readiness of the rescue communications of the Lisbon Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center and the response of this drift calculation model of the Hydrographic Institute was tested.

Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ktLRKDjZFjRnJKenhXNEdPV1k/view