In order to do a good job in the service guarantee work of the second session of the Expo,
the Shanghai Maritime Bureau and the Jiangsu Maritime Bureau jointly held a joint search and
rescue drill on the waters of the Yangtze River Shanghai section of. The joint drill aims to
implement the requirements for the development of maritime integration in the Yangtze
River Delta region, enhance the capacity of water emergency search and rescue in the
Yangtze River Delta region, and enhance the law enforcement linkage and cooperation
between the regional maritime departments.
The drill waters are located in the Taicang section of the Yangtze River, it was simulated
a sudden failure of an imported small internal feeder container ship. The ship was out of
control and collided with an exported river vessel. The danger caused the inland river
ship to sink, five crew members fell into the water, and some fuel oil leaked; two
containers on the inner branch container ship fell into the water, and another container
loaded with dangerous goods exploded, and the crew was injured. The situation was
critical and the rescue was urgently needed.
After received the "Dangerous Situation" alarm, the Shanghai Maritime Search and
Rescue Center and the Jiangsu Maritime Search and Rescue Center immediately
launched a water traffic control linkage mechanism to carry out dangerous emergency
response work. The drill was followed the "Memorandum of Dynamic Law
Enforcement and Emergency Response" and the "Joint Mechanism of Jiangsu and
Shanghai Yangtze River Water Traffic Control", it was simulated the whole process
of emergency response of the waters in the junction of the two places, including
emergency response, on-site traffic control, search and rescue of the drowning
personnel, ship control, container search and salvage, injured crew transfer, ship
fire disposal, water oil pollution disposal by deploying oil booms and oil absorbent pads
and setting of shipwreck navigation aids.