Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Marítima

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Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Marítima

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legal form Entidad pública empresarial Public company
founding 1992
Seat Madrid , SpainSpainSpain 
management Rafael Rodríguez Valero
Number of employees 1,575 (2012)
sales 156.91 million EUR (2012)
Branch Transportation
Website http://www.salvamentomaritimo.es/
As of June 10, 2014

The Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Marítima ( Spanish for Society for Sea Rescue and Safety ), also known by the acronym SASEMAR or the short form Salvamento Marítimo (Sea Rescue), is a Spanish sea ​​rescue organization based in Madrid . It is a public company (entidad pública empresarial), subordinate to the Spanish Maritime Administration ( Dirección General de la Marina Mercante ) and through this the Ministry of Public Works ( Ministerio de Fomento ).

history

The first Spanish sea ​​rescue was established in 1880 under the name Sociedad Española de Salvamento de Náufragos (SESN). Unlike SASEMAR, however, it was a decentralized, non-profit volunteer organization. As a result of the Convention on Search and Rescue at Sea (SAR 79), concluded in 1979 within the framework of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the maintenance of a maritime SAR service in Spain became a state task. These were initially taken over by the Armada Española , the state-owned salvage tug company Remolques Marítimos SA and the Red Cross . However, this model proved to be inadequate to adequately fulfill the tasks required by the international agreement, and so in 1989 the government began to set up a centralized maritime SAR service under the name Plan Nacional de Salvamento . On November 24, 1992, the Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Marítima (SASEMAR) was finally launched. This began to operate in 1993. Initially equipped with only three helicopters, a small fleet of rescue ships of the Salvamar class and leased tugs , the number of resources and rescue units grew steadily. The serious oil spills in the Aegean Sea in 1992 and the Prestige in 2002 showed the Spanish authorities deficits in the fight against maritime environmental disasters and so SASEMAR acquired four ships of the Luz de Mar class and Don Inda class between 2005 and 2007 which are equipped, among other things, to contain and skim off oil spills.

Tasks and organization

The main tasks are the search and rescue of people and objects in distress at sea, the prevention and control of pollution of the ocean, the monitoring and support of shipping traffic and the provision of emergency and salvage tugs to ward off danger in the event of an accident. The surveillance area includes the Spanish territorial waters as well as the Exclusive Economic Zone in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic . The SASEMAR is responsible for a lake area of ​​around 1,500,000 km². This is divided into a total of 19 regional Marine Rescue Sub Centers (MRSC) and the four main regions MRCC Atlántico , MRCC Canarias , MRCC Estrecho de Gibraltar and MRCC Mediterráneo . The Centro Nacional de Coordinación de Salvamento (National Rescue Coordination Center) is based in Madrid . In addition, SASEMAR operates an education and training center in Gijón called Centro Jovellanos .

Rescue units and aircraft

To fulfill its diverse tasks, SASEMAR has a fleet of 73 ships in total. The four multi-purpose ships of the Luz de Mar class and Don Inda class can be used as emergency and salvage tugs as well as in the event of oil spills and fires at sea and as a rescue ship. Ten other deep-sea tugs are also available, seven of which belong to the María de Maeztu class . For search and rescue tasks , SASEMAR has four 32 m long ships of the Guardamar class and 55 ships of the somewhat smaller Salvamar class (15-21 m). Due to their shallow draft, the latter are also suitable for tasks in coastal waters. Also for search and rescue are eleven helicopters , eight of AgustaWestland AW139 and three Sikorsky S-61N , and three maritime patrol aircraft of the model CN-235 Persuader available.

  • Don Inda class

  • Salvamar class

  • AW139

  • CN-235

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Informe anual 2012. (PDF; 4.5 MB) In: salvamentomaritimo.es. May 2, 2013, accessed June 10, 2014 (Spanish).
  2. ^ International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR). In: IMO . April 27, 1979, accessed June 10, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Ley 27/1992, de 24 de noviembre, de Puertos del Estado y de la Marina Mercante. In: boe.es. November 25, 1992, Retrieved June 10, 2014 (Spanish).
  4. ^ Salvamento Marítimo cumple 15 años. (PDF; 354 ​​kB) In: salvamentomaritimo.es. June 27, 2008, Retrieved June 10, 2014 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Main activities. (PDF; 874 kB) In: salvamentomaritimo.es. May 20, 2014, accessed June 10, 2014 .
  6. ^ Spanish Maritime Safety Agency. (PDF; 1.84 MB) In: salvamentomaritimo.es. March 6, 2012, accessed June 10, 2014 .

Web links

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