MARITIME SAR SERVICES

MARITIME SQUADRON

MAJ ETIENNE SCICLUNA

OC INSHORE COMMAND

AGENDA

• AUTHORITY

• MISSION

• ORGANISATION

• SEARCH & RESCUE UNIT

AUTHORITY

• SAR convention 2002

• AFM appointed SAR Authority

(Government notice 102 dtd 28 Jan 03)

• AFM – SAR Point of Contact for Maltese

Search and Rescue Region

MISSION

• To conduct SAR operations in the Malta

SAR Region (SRR) using AFM resources

and other resources that may be available,

in order to expeditiously render aid to

persons in distress and, where possible,

protect property and the environment.

SAR REGION

• More than quarter of

a million square

kilometers

•Almost 600NM in

length and 130NM in

width

•Stretches from 30NM

from the Tunisian

coast to Crete

•Within the SRR, RCC

Malta is legally

responsible for the co-

ordination of all SAR

actions

ORGANISATION

RCC MALTA

SAR MISSION

COORDINATOR

ON SCENE

COMMANDER

SEARCH &

RESCUE

UNIT

SEARCH &

RESCUE

UNIT

SEARCH &

RESCUE

UNIT

COLLECTS

INFORMATION

AND GENERATES

A SAR ACTION

PLAN (SAP)

COORDINATES

ACTIONS ON

SCENE AND

PROVIDES

FEEDBACK TO SMC

SAR

COORDINATOR

SAR PLANNING TOOLS

• Wide use is made of IT in

the planning of SAR

operations, both in the

forms of databases as

well as planning tools.

• The planning tool used,

SAR-OPS, is fully

IAMSAR compliant.

STATISTICS

MEDEVAC TOWING TCN CASES ALERTS

2011 52 14 100 428

2012 45 30 88 456

2013 13 26 223 725

2014 3 NIL 30 60

Operational Capabilities Maritime

Offshore Command

Modified Diciotti Class Offshore Patrol Vessel P61

Protector Class Patrol Craft P51 and P52

Inshore

Command

4 Medium Range Patrol

Boats P21, P22, P23, P24.

Supervittoria Class 800 SAR

Launch Melita I.

Defender Class IPB.

3 Boomeranger FICs.

Rapid Deployment Platoon

Gozo

Command

Supervittoria Class 800 SAR

Launch Melita II.

Defender Class IPB.

Forward Deployed in Mgarr.

Gozo.

GEOGRAPHICAL PSTN

CONSCIOUS

UNCONSCIOUS

IPB

MRPB

REPORTING

• EMERGENCY – 112

• AFM OPERATIONS CENTRE - 22494202

• WHO IS CALLING & CONTACT NO

• EXACT LOCATION

• DESCRIPTION OF THE INCIDENT &

SYMPTOMS

• IDENTIFIABLE MARKS

• WEATHER IN AREA

• ANY OTHER INFORMATION