A cargo ship broke the cable, the port side hit the reef in the middle of the tank, the tank was
watered and occurred oil spill, three crew members fell into the water, and two hydrochloric acid
storage buckets fell into the river and drifted downstream, endangering the safety of the downstream
bridge..." On the afternoon of the 21st, Chongqing City's 2019 water traffic accident comprehensive
emergency drills was carried out in the Zengjiayan waters of Jialing River.
The drill was divided into three subjects: life-saving assistance, uncontrolled ship interception and towing,
and oil spill disposal. Multi-purpose rescue tugboats, high-powered rescue pushers, high-speed assault boats,
unmanned ships and other water rescue equipment were unveiled together onsite.
During the rescue, two high-speed assault boats rushed to the waters of the incident to carry out search
and rescue. After searching, the rescuers found that the water situation of the three drowning people was
complicated, and the assault boat could not get close. Then, the life-saving equipment such as drones, unmanned
ships and rope throwers were used, and the life jackets and lifebuoys were sent to the drowning personnel and
then took the drowning personnel away from the dangerous waters and sent them to the shore by the assault
boat, and then hand over to 120 for treatment.
According to reports, the UAVs involved in the rescue can conduct aerial surveillance on the scene of the
accident and remotely deploy life-saving equipment. Unmanned vessels can take care of underwater terrain
surveys and emergency rescues. When rescue vessels cannot get close to the drowning, they can put lifebuoys
on the drowners and tow them out of dangerous waters.
Subsequently, the high-powered tugboat "Yu Rescue 113" ship carried out adrag-and-drop operations on the
out-of-control freighter. The multi-purpose rescue boat "Yu 111" ship, cruise search and rescue boat and other
boats placed heavy oil booms on site, and applied oil skimmers to dispose of oil spills on the river surface.
According to reports, the “Yu rescue 111" ship is a steel multi-functional rescue tugboat, which has an on-site
command room and a video conference system to transmit real-time images of the scene of the accident. The
stern deck is equipped with a heavy oil booms with 300 meters, a 5 tons of 20-meter 360 degree full swing sling
crane, 2 doors of fire cannon and a material reserve hopper, which can carry out emergency rescue command,
rescue ship rescue, oil spill disposal. In addition, the "Yu rescue 113" ship involved in the rescue is a large-horsepower
steel rescue push wheel, which can be towed and pushed to the rescue ship.
It is understood that this drill was hosted by the Chongqing Municipal Transportation Bureau and undertaken by
the Chongqing Port and Shipping Administration. The Municipal Transportation Bureau said that they hope to test
emergency plans, exercise emergency teams, and run-in linkage mechanism to continuously improve the city's
water traffic emergency rescue capabilities through conducting emergency drills in closing to actual combat.