Notifying Coastguard of departure

[jerrytug]

I'm both surprised, and pleased, to hear that!

+1!

 

[chanelyacht]

I'm both surprised, and pleased, to hear that!

We have quite a few like that around the place, also lone swimmers, paddle boarders, etc - anyone who goes out on their own doing something.

As far as I'm concerned, the taxpayer pays us to deliver the service they want. So that's what we should do!

 

[maby]

We have quite a few like that around the place, also lone swimmers, paddle boarders, etc - anyone who goes out on their own doing something.

As far as I'm concerned, the taxpayer pays us to deliver the service they want. So that's what we should do!

All you need now is an on-line reporting page that can be accessed from a smartphone to remove much of the manual labour of recording the passage plans submitted - does the CG actually operate a proper database, or is it a case of written notes?

 

[chanelyacht]

All you need now is an on-line reporting page that can be accessed from a smartphone to remove much of the manual labour of recording the passage plans submitted - does the CG actually operate a proper database, or is it a case of written notes?

I know the Irish CG have developed such an app, I'm sure our higher ups will be looking at it.

We don't have a special database or written notes - any psg plans are entered onto our working log, basically a notepad type program with the date/time stamping done automatically. It's part of our Vision incident system, so we can send text from it to incident narratives, etc. Whilst every station has its own paired login, it is accessible nationwide and fully searchable. It doesn't create alerts for overdues, or anything like that.

CG66 is a seperate database, again accessible by any station regardless of the boat's "home" MRCC.

 

[JumbleDuck]

We don't have a special database or written notes - any psg plans are entered onto our working log, basically a notepad type program with the date/time stamping done automatically. It's part of our Vision incident system, so we can send text from it to incident narratives, etc. Whilst every station has its own paired login, it is accessible nationwide and fully searchable. It doesn't create alerts for overdues, or anything like that.

So no easy way of determining who might have been near somewhere at a particular time, as some have suggested?

 

[chanelyacht]

So no easy way of determining who might have been near somewhere at a particular time, as some have suggested?

Do you mean the "casualty" vessel or others?

If I wanted to know, say, which vessels had been within 5 miles of a position at a certain time, no, it wouldn't give me that. An AIS replay would, but obviously only show AIS transmitting vessels.

If I wanted to know all vessels that had, say, departed Hamble between 1000 and 1030 and logged a passage plan, I could find that - as long as everyone typed "Hamble" correctly

 

[Spyro]

What is the point of notifying the CG on arrival, since they do not pass that onto the departure CG.

60 miles from my home port is the same coastguard. That's the point

 

[JumbleDuck]

Do you mean the "casualty" vessel or others?

If I wanted to know, say, which vessels had been within 5 miles of a position at a certain time, no, it wouldn't give me that. An AIS replay would, but obviously only show AIS transmitting vessels.

If I wanted to know all vessels that had, say, departed Hamble between 1000 and 1030 and logged a passage plan, I could find that - as long as everyone typed "Hamble" correctly

Thanks - I meant "others".

 

[chanelyacht]

60 miles from my home port is the same coastgaurd. That's the point

They all are the same Coastguard.

 

[alant]

60 miles from my home port is the same coastgaurd. That's the point

But if it isn't the same CG, they will not report it back, to the departure CG, you still have to do that.

Why have a system, where info isn't shared?

 

[chanelyacht]

But if it isn't the same CG, they will not report it back, to the departure CG, you still have to do that.

Why have a system, where info isn't shared?

Please read my earlier post - the system is shared. I can look up the working log of Shetland, Falmouth, Dover, wherever - it is one common system. The UK only has one coastguard service.

 

[maby]

Please read my earlier post - the system is shared. I can look up the working log of Shetland, Falmouth, Dover, wherever - it is one common system. The UK only has one coastguard service.

And, increasingly, you are co-located. I know that there is controversy over the merging of the various CG offices, but at least in this respect, it could simplify the SAR efforts - if a boat from Falmouth goes missing en-route to Dover, the officers that have covered it all the way along its passage could be in the same building soon, couldn't they?

 

[alant]

Please read my earlier post - the system is shared. I can look up the working log of Shetland, Falmouth, Dover, wherever - it is one common system. The UK only has one coastguard service.

So, can you confirm, that if I report in on arrival somewhere, then I don't have to contact any other CG station/area?

 

[chanelyacht]

So, can you confirm, that if I report in on arrival somewhere, then I don't have to contact any other CG station/area?

Correct.

 

[chanelyacht]

And, increasingly, you are co-located. I know that there is controversy over the merging of the various CG offices, but at least in this respect, it could simplify the SAR efforts - if a boat from Falmouth goes missing en-route to Dover, the officers that have covered it all the way along its passage could be in the same building soon, couldn't they?

Not quite, as Dover and Falmouth are staying, as well as the new Fareham centre. And the officer you logged your departure with may have been at Dover - or Shetland, Aberdeen, or Belfast depending on workload. Personally, i don't see any issue with that.