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under
the Official
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Air Surveillance Complementary Capability
Act
30 October 2018
1982
Released
under
the Official
Information
Act 1982
Released
under
the Official
Information
Act 1982
Released
under
the Official
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Category 2 Marine SAROPs (8 years)
Act 1982
Category 1 Marine SAROPs (8 years)
Released
under
the Official
Information
Act 1982
What are our current & future challenges?
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• A very large area of responsibility with large oceanic
areas
• Often have large
under SADs for operations in the oceanic
areas
•
the
Increasing activity in Antarctica (fishing & tourism)
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• SAROPs cannot be programmed in advance
• Some areas of NZ have gaps in SAR
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capability/capacity (e.g. Wairarapa Coast)
• Coastguard (NGO) limited to 12nm
• Systemic changes to Air Ambulance contracts may
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impact on availability for prolonged searches1982
How might air surveillance help?
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Over the last seven years (2010/11 – 2016/17) SAR operations
supported by the current air surveillance capability of the P-3K2
Orion’s have resulted
under in:
•
119 lives saved (where, if SAR agencies had not intervened,
life would definitely hav
the e been lost)
• 92 people rescued (where SAR ag
Official encies locate and rescue a
person or people at risk and return them to a safe location)
• 67 people assisted (where SAR agencies aid a per
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people at low risk, but who, if left, would be at risk)
NZSAR Secretariat estimates the 119 lives saved has averted a
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social cost of
$450.7million to the region
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How can the system be improved?
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Expectation that the P-8A will takeover the role of the P-
3K2 especially with large/remote SAROPs
Opportunities of AS
under CC:
• Close to NZ marine SAR (22 Sep 2018 kayaker missing
off Great Barrier Island
the ), especially where there are
capability gaps
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• Capability for missing a/c searches in NZ
• Providing C2 for large/complex/remote SAROPs
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• Airdrop of lifesaving equipment/supplies
• Providing oversight of medevacs
• Anomaly detection
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• Mobile phone locating
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Oil and Maritime Incident Response (non-SAR)
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opportunities (Maritime NZ)
• Night time detection and/or tracking of
under
known oil spillsthe
• Remote sensing and/or detection of
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unknown or unreported oil spills
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