Caribbean Search & Rescue Community
Our Mission:
"To reduce maritime risk within the Caribbean Community."
Our Methodology:
Bring together the appropriate government agencies
and the currently twenty-six volunteer Search and Rescue
organizations within the Caribbean Community
to establish vigorous programs directed to the:
PREVENTION of maritime accidents and terrorist events
and to the RESPONSE to maritime emergencies resulting
from maritime accidents, terrorist events, or natural disasters.
News Release from Dominican Navy
(Cliq aquí por Español).
Santo Domingo Este, 29 Oct 09 — For the general knowledge of the Dominican public, specifically in the province of Peravia and adjoining regions, the General Staff of the Navy advises that beginning at 0900 hours on Friday, 30 Oct 2009, the exercises entitled "Vigilant Eyes-2009" will be launched in the bay of the Dominican Naval Base "Las Calderas", and will last for six days. The exercises will take place as part of a mutual assistance agreement between the Dominican and Dutch Navies. |
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VADM Homero Luis Lajara Sola |
VADM Homero Luis Lajara Sola, Chief of the General Staff of the Dominican Navy, through his official spokesman, CAPT Juan Pablo Sandoval García,
Chief of the Public Affairs Division (M-5), said that three units of the Dominican Navy will participate
in these exercises, including the Medium Patrol Boat "Capotillo" PM-204, the Coastal Cutter "Canopu" GC-107 and the Attack Launch "Atria" LR-157.
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CAPT Juan Pablo Sandoval García |
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Medium Patrol Boat "Capotillo" PM-204 |
Coastal Cutter "Canopu" GC-107 |
Attack Launch "Atria" LR-157 |
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García also indicated that the Cutter "Poema" and a DASH-8 aircraft will participate from the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba Coast Guard.
VADM Lajara Sola said that these combined training exercises include marine and air search and rescue operations, among others, with the objective of training Dominican Naval personnel and to strengthen the operational readiness of the Dominican Navy. | ||||||
Share Your Best Practices!
As was recently announced in its Whats New listings, the CAR-SAR Website has added a Best Practices section.
The intent of this new facility is for partners to share information that they have learned and perfected from their operations and procedures. While surely many of these Best Practices will fall in the operational realm of Patrols and SAR, there is no reason why contributions can't be made in many other areas of activity, such as Administration, Training, Recruitment, Rentention, and Communications, to name only a few.
Indeed, the raison d'etre for CAR-SAR is to establish means for synergetic interchange of information so that the partners may be more effective, both individually and working together. So here's a chance for each of you to share in that process by submitting some of the various Best Practices that you have learned. Think about it — wouldn't it be nice to keep a partner from having to learn something neat the hard way, like you did?! Don't worry about not having a truly finished product; just submit what you have and we can help you get it into polished form.
HURRICANE SEASON 1 Jun 09 - 30 Nov 09
This is an RSS Feed from the National Hurricane Center.
It will remain active during the entire 2009 Hurricane Season.
For more information, click on the graphic map below to access the National Weather Service's
National Hurricane Center web site. Cliq aquí por Español.
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