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Table 2-45. U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue Statistics, Fiscal Year

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	1985	1990	^e1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Cases	60,775	^R53,097	^R52,782	^R53,294	^R53,026	^R53,899	^R49,704	^R43,553	^R41,096	37,218	39,844
Responses^a	70,237	^R64,971	^R66,409	69,856	69,784	^R70,337	^R63,679	55,710	^R52,141	46,602	50,622
Sorties^a	88,449	84,033	84,872	88,388	88,147	^R108,758	^R110,267	98,423	^R91,722	83,307	89,635
Search and Rescue resource hours^Rb	U	108,020	109,194	108,634	107,431	102,749	93,984	85,136	80,336	80,070	80,490
Lives saved	6,497	^R4,407	^Re5,465	^R17,543	^R5,826	^Rf23,211	^R4,453	^R5,047	^R3,897	3,194	3,743
Lives lost before notification^c	259	^R622	^R748	^R540	^R800	^R593	^R468	^R611	^R454	418	353
Lives lost after notification^d	1,076	^R463	^R368	^R399	^R415	^R338	^R304	^R367	^R290	188	180
Total lives lost	1,335	^R1,085	^R1,116	^R939	^R1,215	^R931	^R772	^R978	^R744	606	533
Persons otherwise assisted	138,791	^R117,327	^R113,704	^R121,826	^R119,069	^R116,912	^R101,357	^R85,869	^R75,357	66,138	70,255
Value of property lost ($ million)	424.3	^R368.5	^R213.6	^R314.5	^R316.2	^R435.5	^R222.6	^R273.8	^R414.8	84.3	262.3
Value of property assisted ($ millions)	2,376.8	^R2,044.9	^R2,282.4	^R1,951.4	^R2,491.8	^R2,891.2	^R4,467.2	^R3494.2	^R1762.1	1,288.2	1,235.0
Property loss prevented ($ million)	905.4	^R1,673.4	^R1,799.3	^R1,550.1	^R2,144.7	^R2,628.4	^R3,882.8	^R3087.3	^R1353.5	996.8	1,019.0

^aResponses are the number of U.S. Coast Guard units involved. Sorties are the number of trips made by boat, aircraft, or cutter.
^b Search and Rescue resource hours represent the time that Coast Guard assets (i.e., aircraft, boats and cutters) perform Search and Rescue operations.
^cThose persons whose lives were lost before the U.S. Coast Guard was notified of an incident.
^dThose persons whose lives were lost in an incident to which the U.S.Coast Guard was responding, but who were alive at the time the U.S. Coast Guard was notified of the incident.
^eCalculations are lower in fiscal year 1991 due to incomplete data submissions by two districts.
^f The Search and Rescue management Information System's reporting policy has been revised, and now requires complete reporting on all lives saved. This policy also includes reporting on "lives saved" in connection with Coast Guard Law Enforcement Activity (i.e., Alien Migrant Interdiction Operations (AMIO)).AMIO lives saved in fiscal year 1992 was determined to be approximately 12,000. AMIO lives saved in fiscal year 1994 was determined to be 15,179.

KEY: R = revised; U = data are not available.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard, Search and Rescue Management Information Systems (SARMIS II) Database, 2000 for all data except Search and Rescue resource hours U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard, Abstract of Operations database, 2000 for Search and Rescue resource hours

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