Search and Rescue

Establishing, Improving and Managing Search and Rescue Capability

BMT Cordah offers a range of Search and Rescue Advisory, Training and Software services to coastguards and the wider maritime community.

Training

Our staff includes two ex-coastguards, each with over 12 years’ experience in the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency. Latterly, both staff were employed as trainers within the Agency and are now able to offer the benefits of leading SAR training practice to other coastguards and organisations. Courses offered include:

SAR Mission Co-ordinator
Search Planning
GMDSS Coastal Station observer
Fundamentals of Search and Rescue for Non-Coastguards
SAR Administrator

We are able to tailor courses to your specific needs. Please see the downloads below for further information or contact tim.parker@bmtcordah.com.

Advice

BMT draws on its breadth of SAR and maritime experience, and that of a team of associates, to provide advice to authorities planning or establishing MRCCs, developing or revising SAR Plans or requiring support relating to SAR incidents. These include:

Search and Rescue Region Risk Analysis for MRCC planning.
Specification of MRCC building, communications and infrastructure.
Search and rescue unit asset planning
Recruitment strategies and training needs analysis
SAR plan development and revision, including transnational cooperation advice

Software

BMT Cordah’s SARIS package is an electronic chart-based search planning tool that was developed on behalf of (and in close collaboration with) the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency. SARIS can be used on a standalone PC or integrated with other MRCC software. It is able to link with meteorological and oceanographic forecast sources and provides visual outputs that can be quickly actioned or transmitted. For more information on SARIS, please see our Software section.

For further information, please contact tim.parker@bmtcordah.com or see the downloads below.