Service Civique trouvé

Il paraît que Service Civique est toujours flottant, environ 1500 milles de Jersey, apparemment. Un cargo qui faisait Savannah-LeHarvre l'a croisé mercredi soir.

Jersey CG:

On Wednesday evening at 1709hrs, Jersey Coastguard received a phone call from a 300m container ship called Mol Empire who had discovered a 20m sailing vessel with apparently no persons on board. Communications with the Captain were lost before a location could be ascertained, but one thing we were certain of is that the huge container ship was not in our 600NM² area of responsibility. A quick internet search of AIS data providers indicated that the vessel was somewhere in the Atlantic ocean on passage from Savannah, USA to Le Harve in France. As AIS uses VHF frequency, which does not travel very far, the last time an AIS base station picked up her signal was 8 days ago, so she could be anywhere. Our first thoughts were to see if our French or UK counterparts could identify the ship’s location which proved negative, but fortunately the communications with the ships’ Captain were re-established and an accurate position was relayed before communication was lost again. The vessel was some 1,500NM away from Jersey so co-ordination for the incident was passed onto the National Maritime Operations Centre in the UK who would have the necessary resources to initiate any SAR mission so far offshore. The Captain of the Mol Empire had circled the small sailing vessel a few times and tried to launch his rescue craft to see if anyone was onboard but the sea conditions would not allow him to do so. But he was able to take some photographs of the vessel and email them via satellite to Jersey Coastguard, Cross Jobourg MRCC & UK Coastguard. Cross Jobourg was very quick to identify the sailing vessel which had been a participant in the Route de Rhum race which took place during the first two weeks of November 2018. The female skipper of the vessel had encountered extremely stormy conditions during the race and was rescued but had to abandon her craft. Due to the persistence & ingenuity of the ship’s Captain, advances in offshore telecommunications and collaborative working between 4 Coastguard agencies, this incident was resolved in under 90 mins without a single SAR unit having to be dispatched. Thank you to all involved. It’s never a dull day here in the Operations Room.

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