Marine safety program

Coast Guard missions. The Auxiliary's Prevention Directorate is responsible for the planning and administration of Auxiliary programs to support and augment the U. Coast Guard's Prevention missions. As such, we assist and augment the Coast Guard's vital role as the nation's guardian agency ensuring the safety and environmental protection of our nation's precious waterway resources.

As America's Volunteer Guardians, we are committed to being dedicated, vigilant and ready to engage this mission on behalf of our fellow citizens.

The Directorate oversees two major Auxiliary programs:. Please Note: Because of the diversity and breadth of the programs overseen by the Prevention Department, and the diversity of those programs which are both Direct Augmentation of Coast Guard Programs and are Auxiliary programs exclusively, this site is a portal to sites dedicated exclusively to specific programs. So maybe we ought to add another Still do we patrol enough? The vessel and aircraft related measures of effectiveness targets are being exceeded.

But the targets are abominably low, considering we are dealing with events with potentially catastrophic consequences. Reportedly we are achieving record high interdiction rates. Defense Readiness : Hours are up considerably, to 56, hours or 7.

The results have been poor with little improvement expected until the National Security Cutters and Fast Response Cutters replace the s and s. Other Law Enforcement : 6, hours 0. The entire effort is less than unit days, but the service is exceeding its performance goal by a wide margin.

Non-Homeland Security hours , hours or Even so, we are meeting our performance objectives. SAR hours are demand driven. In , hours were still below baseline, but bumped up Hopefully we will be able to do more rescuing and less searching as a result of innovations like Rescue The depressed economy may have a role here too.

If we were a SAR only organization we would have to fly or get underway just to train and maintain proficiency. As it is, much of the proficiency training is done working on other missions, so perhaps we should credit a few more percentage points to the hours we spend on SAR. Marine Safety 52, hours 7. This may be another way to count patrol hours.

Improved reliability of aids appears to have made this possible without a drop in service. It says very little about our Arctic capabilities, long in decline. There were no performance measures specifically related to safety of or pollution from offshore wells.