Challenges

There is a challange to enhance quality of ANA region communication by improving Broadband coverage.

There is a need for systems and training to allow effective satellite data usage by SAR and indigenous communities. This challenge can also be categorised with Personnel, Training and Education.

There is a need for collaboration between satellite stakeholders to ensure maximal coverage and emergency preparedness and protection against cyber-threats.

A challenge for communication capabilities in the ANA Region is the need for AI and data analytics for processing of satellite data.

A challenge in communication capability is for technology to ensure satellite data is accessible within required timescale.

A challenge for communication in the ANA region is ensuring sufficient satellite coverage.

There is a challenge for the common training of all crews and workers in the ANA region in lifesaving/survival issues.

There is a challenge for collaborating, between ANA lifesaving stakeholders, on how to meet the “5 day” requirement of the IMO Polar Code.

There is a challenge for Collaboration between ANA lifesaving stakeholders to increase the numbers, and sharing, of helicopters to provide adequate coverage

A challenge exists for collaboration between ANA lifesaving stakeholders for enhancing liaison between industrial developers and SAR practitioners.

A challenge faced in current technology for survival is the need for enhanced flotation suits suitable for ANA conditions.

There is a challenge to improve technology for providing water and preventing dehydration to enhance survival.

A challenge for improved technology to enhance survival is in the area of combatting heat loss

There is a challenge to enhance survival by improving lifeboat and raft technology and design.

Understanding and mapping of survival faces the challenge of the gaps between current laboratory/mannequin tests and ANA region realities. 

A challenge in the understanding and mapping of survival in ANA region is the need for research into human behaviour and decision making when cold.

There is a challenge for more nuanced survival planning with respect to type of vessel and incident

As part of understanding survival in the ANA region there is a challenge to research into mapping of actual realistic survival times by category (age, vulnerability, location, conditions).

There is a challenge to enhance collaboration between vessel owners and SAR and industrial stakeholders.

A challenge for the collaborations between vessels and SAR stakeholders is clarification on points of regulations for vessels.