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Table 2-45: U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue
Statistics, Fiscal Year
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Cases |
60,775 |
53,097 |
52,782 |
53,294 |
53,026 |
53,899 |
49,704 |
43,553 |
41,096 |
37,218 |
39,844 |
40,214 |
39,457 |
36,763 |
(R)
31,618 |
32,539 |
29,799 |
28,323 |
Responsesa |
70,237 |
64,971 |
66,409 |
69,856 |
69,784 |
70,337 |
63,679 |
55,710 |
52,141 |
46,602 |
50,622 |
48,226 |
49,502 |
46,643 |
U |
U |
U |
U |
Sortiesa |
88,449 |
84,033 |
84,872 |
88,388 |
88,147 |
108,758 |
110,267 |
98,423 |
91,722 |
83,307 |
89,635 |
57,697 |
59,015 |
54,609 |
(R)
33,426 |
33,106 |
29,858 |
26,814 |
Search and Rescue resource hoursb |
U |
108,282 |
109,351 |
108,639 |
107,441 |
102,749 |
93,984 |
85,150 |
80,507 |
80,116 |
84,635 |
80,533 |
85,008 |
75,841 |
(R)
65,182 |
65,877 |
77,888 |
60,248 |
Lives
saved |
6,497 |
4,407 |
5,465 |
f17,543 |
5,826 |
f23,211 |
4,453 |
5,047 |
3,897 |
3,194 |
3,743 |
3,400 |
4,010 |
3,661 |
(R)
5,196 |
5,559 |
5,650 |
5,288 |
Lives
lost, total |
1,335 |
1,085 |
1,116 |
939 |
1,215 |
931 |
772 |
978 |
744 |
606 |
533 |
1,018 |
710 |
635 |
(R) 673 |
780 |
845 |
787 |
Lives lost before notificationc |
259 |
622 |
748 |
540 |
800 |
593 |
468 |
611 |
454 |
418 |
353 |
g779 |
413 |
399 |
(R) 412 |
502 |
522 |
479 |
Lives lost after notificationd |
1,076 |
463 |
368 |
399 |
415 |
338 |
304 |
367 |
290 |
188 |
180 |
239 |
297 |
236 |
(R) 261 |
278 |
323 |
308 |
Persons
otherwise assisted |
138,791 |
117,327 |
113,704 |
121,826 |
119,069 |
116,912 |
101,357 |
85,869 |
75,357 |
66,138 |
70,255 |
54,866 |
59,910 |
46,503 |
(R)
38,571 |
41,972 |
41,549 |
44,721 |
Value of property lost ($ million)e |
424.3 |
368.5 |
213.6 |
314.5 |
316.2 |
435.5 |
222.6 |
273.8 |
414.8 |
84.3 |
262.3 |
415.2 |
441.0 |
76.0 |
(R)
19.6 |
45.0 |
97.0 |
31.8 |
Value
of property assisted ($ million) |
2,376.8 |
2,044.9 |
2,282.4 |
1,951.4 |
2,491.8 |
2,891.2 |
4,467.2 |
3,494.2 |
1,762.1 |
1,288.2 |
1,235.0 |
778.8 |
1,501.0 |
1,589.0 |
(R)
478.7 |
778.3 |
1,661.8 |
2,166.6 |
Property
loss prevented ($ million) |
905.4 |
1,673.4 |
1,799.3 |
1,550.1 |
2,144.7 |
2,628.4 |
3,882.8 |
3,087.3 |
1,353.5 |
996.8 |
1,019.0 |
84.3 |
73.0 |
68.0 |
(R)
106.7 |
238.7 |
146.4 |
111.0 |
KEY: R = revised; U = data are not available.
a Responses 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.
c Those persons whose lives were lost before the U.S. Coast
Guard was notified of an incident.
d Those 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.
e Includes several out of the
normal high cost incidents.
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.
g The Egypt Air (217
fatalities) and Alaska Air (88 fatalities) crashes account for the increase.
SOURCES
All data except Search and Rescue resource hours:
1985-1993: U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard,
Search and Rescue Management Information Systems (SARMIS II) Database,
Internet site www.uscg.mil/hq/g-o/g-opr/92-01summary.htm as of Aug. 8, 2002.
1994-2002: U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard, ON SCENE The Journal of U.S. Coast Guard Search Rescue, Internet site
www.uscg.mil/hq/g-o/g-opr/On%20Scene/onscene.htm as of July 28, 2004.
2003-06: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard,
Office of Search and Rescue, personal communications, March 15, 2007.
Search and Rescue resource hours:
1990-2002: U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard,
Office of Command and Control Architecture, personal communications, Sept.
30, 2003 and July 28, 2004.
2003-06: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard,
Office of Search and Rescue, personal communications, March 15, 2007.
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