Multi agency training response
exercise
Exercise included procedures
for security of a cruise vessel
May 11, 2005
Wednesday
Ketchikan, Alaska - A Coast Guard 25-foot boat crew prepares
to board the cruise ship Sun Princess off the coast of Ketchikan
during a multi agency training response exercise held here May
9 through today.
USCG crew prepares
to board the cruise ship Sun Princess off the coast of Ketchikan....
Photo courtesy Ketchikan Fire Department
Exercise participants included Coast Guard Air Station Sitka,
Coast Guard Station Ketchikan, Coast Guard Marine Safety Office
Juneau, Coast Guard Marine Safety Detachment Ketchikan, Coast
Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team 91111, Princess Cruise
Lines, Cruise Line Agencies of Alaska, International Council
for Cruise Lines, Ketchikan fire and police departments, Coast
Guard Pacific Strike Team and the Alaska National Guard's 103rd
Civil Support Team.
The exercise included procedures for security of a cruise vessel,
testing of communications between various responding agencies,
and increased local responder knowledge and awareness of cruise
vessel capabilities and procedures for handling certain hazardous
events.
Source of News:
United States Coast Guard
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