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Local first responders receive maritime search and rescue training

Area first responders from three local and D.O.D. agencies completed maritime search and rescue training this week. The teams were composed of personnel from the Okaloosa County SO, Destin Fire Department, and United States Air Force SERE School.  The week-long course provided specialized search and rescue training designed to strengthen partnerships and promote mission success […]

📸 United States Coast Guard Station Destin

Area first responders from three local and D.O.D. agencies completed maritime search and rescue training this week.

  • The teams were composed of personnel from the Okaloosa County SO, Destin Fire Department, and United States Air Force SERE School. 

The week-long course provided specialized search and rescue training designed to strengthen partnerships and promote mission success in the Search and Rescue mission, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The training, dubbed the “Boat Operator Search and Rescue (BOSAR)”, was presented by instructors from United States Coast Guard Station Destin. 

  • It is a nationally accredited curriculum that allows federal, state, and local responders to work seamlessly together in responding to mariners in distress. 
  • It also provides responders with state of the art tactics and techniques needed locate and rescue people at sea. 
📸 United States Coast Guard Station Destin

The United States Coast Guard has designated the training as the National Standard for maritime first responders.

“The rigorous training involved many hours of waterborne drills and scenario driven exercises,” wrote the U.S. Coast Guard in a statement. “It not only tested the responders’ capabilities, but that of their equipment while underway in the waters of Choctawhatchee Bay near Destin.”

📸 United States Coast Guard Station Destin

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