On the morning of September 25th, the 2019 Dongying Sea Area maritime emergency
comprehensive drill was held in the Dongying waters. The drill was simulated a oil tanker
collided with a passing ship, the crew fell into the water, the tanker caught fire, and
the crude oil was leaked. The Dongying Maritime Search and Rescue Center organized
various forces to carry out joint rescue of "sea, land and air". The drill was designed
to test the feasibility of the city's maritime emergency plan, closely cooperate with
the search and rescue of member units, and improve the ability to deal with emergencies
at sea.
At 10:15 in the morning, the drill was officially begun. The ship was collided, and the
smoke was raised. Three crew members fell into the water and the crude oil was
leaked. The situation was urgent. The ship in distress issued an alarm signal while
they were carrying out self-rescue, and the Dongying Maritime Search and Rescue
Center quickly launched an emergency plan.
At sea, two assault boats firstly arrived at the incident waters. The search and
rescue radar carrying on the ship successfully locked the position signal of the Beido
life jacket worn by the drowning personnel. The rescuers immediately released the
intelligent remote control lifebuoy and successfully rescued the two drowning personnel.
The use of intelligent lifebuoys in the drill was the first time in Dongying City. The
equipment is integrated into the control technology of drones and water robots.
The remote control lifebuoy can quickly approach the drowning personnel within
500 meters. It has high rescue efficiency and low rescue risk. It can cope with
all kinds of harsh water rescue environments.
In the air, the professional rescue helicopter took off urgently and searched for
another person who was in the water. After full rescue, all three drowning
personnel were rescued. At the same time, the fire fighting work of the vessels
in distress was also intensified. The two Chuanxiao brand heavy-duty foam fire
engines belonging to the Sinopec Shengli Oilfield Emergency Rescue Base rushed
to the dock and successfully extinguished the fire in the ship in distress.
At this time, the Dongying Maritime Search and Rescue Center received the
information on the ship's oil spill radar from the on-site oil spill emergency ship,
which accurately showed the oil spill location, estimated area, and expected
drift path of the oil spill. On-site emergency ship victory 505, Offshore Oil 252 ship
opened the ship-borne oil skimmers for sea surface oil recovery, the search and
rescue center also dispatched victory 212 ship and victory 242 ships to deploy
400 meters oil booms for controlling.
The drill process was lasted for 90 minutes. Unlike the previous maritime
emergency drills, the drill was not only simulated the emergency coordination
command of the marine emergency, the search and rescue force linkage, the
implementation of personnel rescue, ship fire extinguishing, oil spill recovery,
and public opinion control, but also it was used a large number of informatization
tools, and a large amount of new equipment and new technologies. It was
provided a powerful guarantee for improving the efficiency of rescue and
the scientific nature of decision-making.