USNS Bold searches for missing person in Adriatic
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NAPLES, Italy (USTCNS) --- For the skipper and crew of USNS Bold, search operations are all too familiar to a ship designed to detect foreign submarines.
Last month in the northern Adriatic Sea, however, that mission expanded to a search and rescue operation of a private sailboat-a crewmember had been swept overboard in heavy seas and was reported missing at sea.
Bold received the 'mayday' distress call on VHF Channel 16 from the distressed ship identified as the S/V Illeria-located about five nautical miles from its current position, according to Bold's master Capt. Myron Bister.
Immediately thereafter, Bold received another radio transmission-this time from the Croatian coast guard at nearby Split asking for assistance from ships in the area. Bold radioed that they were close and would participate. "Reports indicated that a female crewmember of the British yacht was swept overboard while trying to secure the boat's liferaft," said Bister. "We immediately headed for the area."
Once close to the private yacht, Bold joined other merchant ships in scouring the seas in a "parallel" search method used with ships spaced about one nautical mile apart.
Shortly thereafter, the Italian coast guard at Ancona, Italy, notified Bold that further assistance was on the way. Italian helicopters and maritime patrol aircraft searched until darkness fell and low fuel forced them to return to base.
Rescue efforts were suspended until first light. The Italian coast guard indicated they would send additional surface craft to the scene.
With sufficient assets on hand, Bold was released from the operation at this time-Bister reported that the missing woman had still not been found.
Military Sealift Command, or MSC, which operates these 'ocean surveillance' ships for the commander of the Navy's Undersea Surveillance, are more commonly known within Navy ranks as 'SURTASS,' or surveillance towed array sensor system ships. SURTASS ships collect acoustic data by an array of hydrophones-underwater listening devices-deployed on a tow cable. (FROM MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND-EUROPE NEWSWIRE).
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