AMVER

The Automated Mutual -Assistance Vessel Rescue System ( AMVER ), formerly known as Atlantic Merchant Vessel Emergency Reporting System known, is an entertaining of the United States Coast Guard ship reporting service.

Particulars

The purpose of the voluntary and free ship reporting system is a computerized coordination of assistance intervention in the context of the global search and rescue service (Search and Rescue / SAR ). The position reports to the participating ships enable the AMVER staff in a position to inform the nearest and most suitable ships on distress cases and to coordinate their assistance with larger stakes.

Participation in AMVER obliges the participating ships not to take further action as such, as they are from 1979, set in the international law of the sea, such as the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea and the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue at Sea.

AMVER started its work on 18 July 1958, and was initially limited to ships in the North Atlantic with a survey over 1000 gross tons. The headquarters of the organization was originally New York City, and later moved AMVER to Washington, DC to, today it operates from Martinsburg in West Virginia.