Marine Salvage Capabilities Responding to Terrorist Attacks in U.S. Ports — Actions to Improve Readiness (2004) / Chapter Skim
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1Federal officials and industry leaders have recentlyfocused national attention on the security of U.S.seaports and posed serious questions about how best to prevent future terrorist incidents in and around these facilities. Equally important, however, are questions about U.S.
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requiring salvage expertise, USCG calls upon the Navy for salvage assistance. Traditionally, the Navy has been the federal agency that maintains the ability to respond to maritime accidents requiring professional marine salvage services.
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Intracoastal Waterway (GICW) , and the destruction of a state highway bridge across the Mississippi River.
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about funding, liability, planning processes, and protocols for addressing impacts not directly a part of salvage but having an effect on salvage operations. All of these issues could not be covered during the time given for the workshop.
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level tabletop exercise to test the interactions necessary to identify and mobilize the salvage assets necessary to clear harbors and channels so that the ports can be reopened in the most efficient fashion. This exercise should include representatives from the Navy, the salvage industry, and other related stakeholders.
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• The establishment of a protocol for addressing human casualties and decedent affairs for maritime casualties; and • The establishment of standby salvage capability in some particularly vulnerable and busy port and harbor.
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