On the 7th, mobile rescuers and divers of the Japan Coast Guard known as "Umizaru" conducted training to rescue injured people from a ship stranded at Taniyama Port in Kagoshima City.
The training held at Taniyama Port in Kagoshima City was attended by members of the Mobile Rescue Officer, who belong to the 10th Regional Coast Guard and are based at Kagoshima Airport, and divers of the "Patrol Boat Satsuma".
The training was conducted on the assumption that patrol boats would be likened to passenger ships, and that divers and others would carry injured people ashore from a ship that collided with a quay and ran aground.
In the training, a member who was on the ground first launched a rope called a fast rope using a special launcher.
Then, when the member who was on the ship first tied the rope to the railing part of the deck, the member who was on the ground pulled the rope and rescued the injured person.
The Mobile Rescue Officer is 81 elite selected from approximately 14,000 coast guard officers, and 9 of them belong to Kagoshima Air Base.
Tomoya Takeshita, Chief of the Security and Rescue Department of the 10th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters, said, "By training in collaboration with mobile rescuers and divers, a lot of things to notice and consider will come out. I think that confirming cooperation and rescue methods has a special meaning. "