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Century Coastguard
BAPCO Newcastle
12 November 2014
HM Coastguard
The Future Coastguard Programme is intended
to modernise the existing Service in a manner
that provides effective and efficient provision into
the future whilst maintaining the current quality
of service.
FCG Maritime Operations Version 1. January 2012
HM Coastguard
There are two operational pillars to the
Coastguard service:
Maritime Operations - (which this presentation
addresses) is focussed on the seafaring
community, the UK’s seaborne and offshore
interests and the initiation and coordination of all
maritime and coastal emergency response
Coastal Operations - which is focussed on the
safety of users of the UK coastline, including
coastal search and rescue provision
Maritime Operations
Why
What
How
Maritime Operations
Why
What
How
Coast Guard Functions
 Search and Rescue
 Pollution Response
 Vessel Traffic
Management
 Maritime Safety
 Accident and Disaster
Response
 Maritime Security
Coast Guard Functions
 Search and Rescue
 Pollution Response
 Vessel Traffic
Management
 Maritime Safety
 Accident and Disaster
Response
 Maritime Security
 Customs
 Border Control
 Fisheries Control
 Law Enforcement
EU Integrated Maritime Policy
Wellbeing of Citizens
Security (Energy, Borders, Physical, Economic)
Safety (Environment, Physical)
Climate Change
EU Integrated Maritime Policy
Wellbeing of Citizens
Security (Energy, Borders, Physical, Economic)
Safety (Environment, Physical)
Climate Change
Prosperity
Aquaculture
Leisure
Commerce
Travel
Maritime Surveillance
Maritime Surveillance: The systematic and
continuous observation of the maritime domain
to achieve effective situational awareness.
Maritime Domain Awareness: The
understanding of activities carried out in the
maritime domain to support timely decision
making in the fields of Maritime Security and
Maritime Safety.
Maritime Operations
Why
What
How
Maritime Operations
MRSC
24*7
(23)
Stornoway
 National Maritime
Operations Centre (NMOC)
 Coastguard Operations
Centres (CGOC):
Shetland; Aberdeen;
Humber; Dover; Falmouth;
Milford; Holyhead; Belfast
and Stornoway
 Disaster Recovery at Dover
 London Coastguard
Shetland
MRSC
24*7
(23)
MRSC
24*7
(23)
Belfast
Aberdeen
MRSC
24*7
(23)
Humber
MRSC
24*7
(23)
MRSC
24*7
(23)
Holyhead
MRSC
24*7
(23)
Milford Haven
London
6
MOC
24*7
(96)
Falmouth
MRSC
24*7
(23)
(28)
MRSC
24*7
Dover
Maritime Operations Communications
& Data Links
CGOC
CGOC
+NDC
CGOC
CGOC
CGOC
MCA IL3
Blue Light
Network
CGOC
CGOC
London CG
CGOC
NMOC
+SDC
CGOC
+DR
Maritime Picture
Informs Common Recognised Information Picture
 Satellite imagery
 Aerial surveillance
 Active sensors
 Passive sensors
 Environmental data
 Charting
 Bathymetry
 Databases
National Maritime Operations
Centre
 Has a distant horizon – the extent of the
maritime domain
 Is a portal for other government departments into
the maritime domain, and vice versa
 Exercises command and control over
Coastguard operations
Maritime Operations Functions
Rescue Coordination
 Civil Maritime (including the initiation of Coastal Response)
Traffic Monitoring
 Targeting
 Tracking
 Intervention
Counter Pollution
 Monitoring
 Response
Maritime Operations
Why
What
How
Maritime Operations Methods
 Generates a maritime picture using information
from a variety of sources
Detects threats to safety, the environment and
security at an early stage through awareness of
deviations from the normal
Proactive as well as reactive
Manages risk
Maritime Operations Methods
 Assesses background risk
Deploys resources in anticipation
Provides tactical and strategic decision making
Ensures resilience
Provides national command for major maritime
incidents
Manages Resources to meet
Demand
Transition
The detail of how National Maritime Operations service network will be
developed over the next 12 months.
The UK has been divided into Zones
which are grouped into Areas of
Responsibility and these are under the
control of maritime operations teams
based in the NMOC or CGOC.
These groupings will be based on a
risk assessment that considers
predicted activity, resourcing and any
other relevant factors such as events,
weather forecast, etc.
Please note these are representative areas.
ICCS provides:
Distribution of communications into a
maximum of 40 functional areas
Up to 30 radio channels per area
Ability to monitor 15 channels/aerials
on a single terminal screen
Telephones (inc. 999) directed according
to post code (as now)
Intercom facility (desk to desk anywhere
sharing same ICCS)
Vision Direct dial facility
GMDSS A1 and A2 DSC Alerts
Resource Information by Vision area
The systems that provide:
 Communications.
 Incident and Information management
 Domain awareness.
Will have aligned pre-defined ‘Functional /
Work’ areas
Resource Management
(A case study)
A distress alert initiates the opening of
an incident. This is being coordinated
by the CGOC with responsibility for
that area on that day. All on-duty
teams nationally will be aware of this
(and all other) incident(s) as they
share the same ViSION system
Resource Management
(A case study)
As the demands of the incident
increase the workload on the team at
the CGOC, the Controller responsible
for that Centre,
has a number of options for managing
that workload. These include any
combination or all of:
Delegating away non-emergency
work across the network
Adding resource (virtual operators)
Reducing the size of Area
In this case, in consultation with the
Commander a change of AOR for the
CGOCand flank centres
is agreed thus enabling the
coordinating team to focus on the
incident.
Resource Management
(A case study)
In the event that the complexity or
significance of the incident grows to
such an extent that other government
departments or nations have an
interest and/or become involved, then:
The National Maritime Operations
Commander may choose for the NMOC
to assume strategic command and
control while utilising the team at the
initiating Centre to focus on specific
elements of the incident as appropriate
Traffic Reporting Schemes
To provide a consistent service to
mariners and avoid repeated passing
of Transit reports. Traffic Separation
Scheme reporting could be conducted
by a operations teams at any
location(s) operating on a rota to
cover
- Minch, Fair Isle, Pentland Firth,
Lands End, The Smalls, North
channel.
The Dover strait TSS will remain the
responsibility of the centre at Dover to
meet CNIS obligations
National Monitoring Services
Examples
A team of Officers on any given
day according to workload can
undertake the following services
in discharge of the UK’s
responsibilities:
1.Receipt of an alert in the event
of a banned ship entering UK
waters.
2.The requirement to monitor
Single Hull Tankers
3.Requirement for an alert when
vessels of interest to other
Government departments enter
UK waters.
geoff.matthews@mcga.gov.uk