The Maritime Search and Rescue Database

This project aims to develop concepts for, and implementations of, a database of maritime search and rescue (SAR) knowledge. The purpose of the database is to preserve and share knowledge to support global maritime SAR. A set of requirements, desiderata, and test-bed templates have been developed.

Help make our seas safer by sharing knowledge.

Call to action

The projects needs patrons, partners, stakeholder and community input. What would you like to see in a database to create value? What use-cases and applications do you recommend?
The project also needs data & knowledge contributions from SAR organizations and individuals, as well as industry and SAR org. partners.

How to Contribute

1) Provide your desiderata and constructive recommendations here: https://tinyurl.com/KnowSAR-GenInput

2) Contact to submit SAR best-practices, lessons learned, and recommendations to the developed database templates here.

3) Contact to collaborate / coauthor on research articles.

How to Support

Formal collaborations, sponsorships, funding and contributors are sought. Please contact maritimeSARemail@gmail.com if you would like to contribute or support.

• Donate at this link. As an unfunded project to date, if you find value in this, consider donating to the author. God bless.
• Formal Sponsorship: Contact to become a sponsor. In exchange for your support, your organization will be listed in subsequent publications, and on the developed webpages, including this.
• Industry database partners: have a database platform or product? Would you like to offer it to this project? Please contact.
• Technological services: have data-management computer science skills? Would you like to offer your skills in service of this project? Please contact.

HISTORY

• Proposed by the author in formal submissions to the 2019 World Maritime Rescue Congress, an International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF) conference, but rejected.
  • [Sample 1 evidence of submission.] [Sample 2][Email verification on request]
• Email expression of partnership interest in 2023 to IMRF, but the current administration has thus far not been open to work together on this area of mutual interest and benefit. They recently started a similar project funded by Lloyds. Register
• Author submitted a grant proposal to Lloyds Register Small Grant Scheme in 2023, but was rejected.
• In 2024, Lloyds changed their policy excluding persons of the authors category to apply for funding.

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The Maritime SAR Bibliography [Donate via GoGetFunding link] [Donate via PayPal]