The small tour boat operator in Utoro, Shari-cho, which had refrained from operating due to the sinking of a tour boat off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido, has set its own rules for safe operation and will operate this season from the 16th. To start.
The Shiretoko Small Tour Boat Council, which is made up of businesses operating small tour boats in Utoro, Shari Town, has refrained from operating this season following the sinking accident of a tour boat in April, but it is safe so far. We will summarize the voluntary rules of operation and start operation from the 16th.
The voluntary rules announced on the websites of the council companies on the 15th are strongly conscious of preventing their recurrence in response to the fact that this sinking accident occurred by operating alone in the absence of an operation manager. increase.
Voluntary rules:
▽ Flight decisions will be discussed by multiple companies.
▽ In principle, do not operate independently.
▽ Unify the business period.
▽ We have set four items, such as installing a business radio common to the council.
On the afternoon of the 15th, the new chairman of the council, Noboru Kamio, disclosed the safety equipment of the ship based on the voluntary rules to the press in Utoro, Shari-cho.
In this, he explained that the business radio that the ships of the council communicate with each other and the monitoring monitor that the captain notices the abnormality of the engine even from the operation room were newly introduced.
Chairman Kamio said, "We have set voluntary rules to prevent accidents from happening again. Even now, there are people who are missing and we are having a hard time, but customers will not come back unless we resume operations. I want to deepen cooperation and restore trust as much as possible. I want to give top priority to the lives of customers and resume business. "
On the 16th, the two companies will operate a total of three flights.
Dispatched a large patrol boat around the sea site area
Given that the rescue team took a long time to arrive at the site due to the sinking of a tour boat off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido, the Japan Coast Guard announced that it had a large area around the site during the summer tourist season. The policy is to dispatch a patrol boat and prepare for prompt rescue.
In the accident where the tour boat "KAZU 1" sank off the coast of the Shiretoko Peninsula, the site sea area was outside the area where the "Mobile Rescue Officer" responsible for salvage at the Japan Coast Guard could arrive within an hour. Shown as an issue.
However, since it will take a certain amount of time to strengthen the system, the Japan Coast Guard dispatches patrol boats around the site sea area during this summer's tourist season, and lifts them from helicopters in the same way as mobile rescuers. A rescue diver has decided to prepare for prompt rescue.
Helicopters will be dispatched to large patrol boats with decks that can take off and land, and if patrol boats without divers are dispatched, divers will be dispatched to nearby bases.
Takahiro Okushima, Secretary of the Japan Coast Guard, said, "Medium-sized patrol boats are deployed in the sea area from Wakkanai to Nemuro, but we would like to make every effort to rescue the sea by dispatching large patrol boats."
Following the accident, Governor Suzuki of Hokkaido urged the government to strengthen the rescue system of the Japan Coast Guard as much as possible by the summer.