International Ice Patrol
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The International Ice Patrol ( IIP ; German International Eispatrouille ) is a company that for the monitoring of icebergs in the North Atlantic is responsible. It was founded in 1914 after the disaster of the RMS Titanic (April 15, 1912). The IIP operated by the United States Coast Guard is obliged, in return for a proportionate reimbursement of costs, to issue appropriate reports on the iceberg situation in the North Atlantic to the countries that have signed a pact.
The current head of the International Ice Patrol has been Commander Gabrielle McGrath of the United States Coast Guard since 2013 .
Exploration
To explore the icebergs in the North Atlantic were initially two boats of the United States Coast Guard provided. The ships provided a valuable basis for sea rescue in the arctic waters and as early as 1914 the Seneca rescued the survivors of the lost third lifeboat of the steamer Columbian west of Sable Island. In 1931 a third ship for oceanographic observations in the Grand Banks area was put into service.
After the Second World War an aerial observation was intensified by the Coast Guard Argentia Air Detachment with its base in St. John's (Newfoundland) . From 1966 to October 1983, the headquarters and operations center were on Governors Island , NY, and were then relocated to Groton (Connecticut) . Since January 2009 New London (Connecticut) is the location of the International Ice Patrol . The aerial reconnaissance, meanwhile stationed on Prince Edward Island and at Gander Airport (Newfoundland), operates today with four Lockheed HC-130s from St. John's (Newfoundland).
States involved
Since 1993, the participating states have included:
- United States
- Canada
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Japan
- Sweden
- Poland
- Spain
- Belgium
- France
- Greece
- Great Britain
- Denmark
- Germany
- Finland
- Italy
- Panama
literature
- Andreas Knudsen: International Ice Patrol. IIP season start 2015 . Marineforum 2-2015, p. 32.
Web links
- Official site of the IIP (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Clayton Evans: Rescue at Sea . Conway Maritime Press 2003, ISBN 0-85177-934-4 , p. 184.
- ↑ www.uscg-iip.org ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Where is the IIP base of operation? (engl.). Accessed June 5, 2010
- ↑ www.navcen.uscg.gov 2011 Annual Report (PDF; 5.5 MB).
