MARCH 17, 2017--Roughly 40 USCG, state, and local emergency responders attended this week’s Marine Salvage Response training in San Pedro, CA.

The training was sponsored by the USCG’s 11th District and the American Salvage Association (ASA). OR&R’s Emergency Response Division (ERD) provided presentations on the Scientific Support services available to the USCG and EPA during emergencies and NOAA’s Remediation of Legacy Environmental Threats (RULET) initiative identifying and prioritizing shipwrecks posing potential pollution threats in US waters.

Topics by others, included:

• Sinkings, capsizings and strandings
• Marine casualty assessments
• Salvage and marine firefighting
• Heavy lift rigging and emergency towing
• Emergency oil removal (lightering)
• Sunken/submerged oil detection and recovery
• Places of Safe Refuge for vessels in distress
• USCG’s Salvage Engineering Response Team (SERT)
• Navy salvage assets
• Commercial diving assets
• Funding via the USCG’s National Pollution Fund Center (NPFC)

The course provides and maintains an important level of responder knowledge in proper salvage operations. Attendees included USCG personnel involved in oil spills, marine inspections, security, and maritime transportation recovery as well as CA’s Office of Spill Prevention & Response (OSPR), and Los Angeles and Orange County Fire Departments.

For more information, contact Jordan.Stout@noaa.gov.

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