Kerala plans multi-agency mechanism for faster response to sea accidents

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Kerala plans to establish a multi-agency rapid response mechanism for sea accident rescues, leveraging the fishing community's expertise to make timely decisions during critical 'golden hour' intervals. A local team of fishers will support official search and rescue operations.

Since fishing community is best equipped to gauge conditions at sea, including wind speed and currents, and take decisions based on them during the ‘golden hour,’ a local rapid response team of fishers will be formed to support search operations