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Rescue group holds exercise today
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Posted on Jun 28 2005
GUAM—Search and Rescue Group Guam will be conducting a quarterly search and rescue exercise today, June 29, beginning at 10am.
The exercise will take place in the waters off Ypao Beach, Tumon Bay and has been designed to enhance the working relationship that exists between the various agencies that respond to search and rescue on Guam.
The scenario chosen for this exercise will task the group with locating and rescuing five missing divers. The divers will be discovered both inside as well as outside the reef, complicating the planning and control of the search and rescue effort. Live people will interact in a realistic manner with the rescue teams, playing the roles of four of the divers in distress. The fifth missing diver will be a dummy, which will be placed on the bottom inside the reef significantly complicating the search effort.
SAR Group Guam is a multi-agency cooperative comprised of both local and federal agencies that are engaged in maritime and terrestrial search and rescue response here on Guam.
The agencies involved in the group include: U.S. Coast Guard Sector Guam, U.S. Navy Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25, Guam Fire Department Rescue Division, Guam Police Department Marine Division, Guam Police Department Tumon Beach Patrol, and Andersen Air Force Base Federal Fire Department. (PR)
