RESCUE STATIONS
(Rec. 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 18. Rear-Admiral E. H. Smith, commander of the Eastern Area Coastguard, stated that the provisional international civil aviation organisation had prepared a plan not yet ratified, whereby victims of air and shipping disasters anywhere in the North Atlantic could be reached within nine and a-half hours. The plan envisaged 13 rescue stations based on North Atlantic shores using aircraft, including helicopters, droppable boats, and sur-
A North Atlantic Project
vival gear. The shore-based organisation would co-operate with floating ocean weather stations, which would be established, costing 1,000,000 dollars each annually. Rear-Admiral Smith stressed that no other ocean region embraced so much air and sea traffic as the North Atlantic, which was, therefore, the logical area to test the safety plan. He added that disaster in the North Atlantic was no myth. Another Titanic disaster was possible; moreover, it would be hastened unless safeguards were maintained.
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Evening Star, Issue 25927, 19 October 1946, Page 7
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153RESCUE STATIONS Evening Star, Issue 25927, 19 October 1946, Page 7
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