The Maritime and Coastguard Agency is a UKgovernment agency working to prevent the loss of lives at searesponsible for implimenting maritime safety policy. This involves coordinating search and rescue at sea through HM Coastguard, ensuring that ships meet international and UK safety standards and monitoring and preventing coastal water pollution. Image File history File links Logo of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, incorporating the Red Ensign. ... Image File history File links Logo of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, incorporating the Red Ensign. ... An agency is a department of a local or national government responsible for the oversight and administration of a specific function, such as a customs agency or a space agency. ... Search and Rescue (acronym SAR) is an operation mounted by emergency services, often well-trained volunteers, to find someone believed to be in distress, lost, sick or injured either in a remote or difficult to access area, such as mountains, desert or forest (Wilderness search and rescue), or at sea... Her Majestys Coastguard is the agency of the government of the United Kingdom concerned with co-ordinating rescue at sea. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
The MCA is currently working to establish an Automatic Identification System (AIS) network around the UK coast, for real-time tracking and monitoring of shipping movements from the shore. Automatic Identification System (AIS) An advanced navigation system developed and used by ships and vessel traffic systems VTS for collision avoidance at sea. ...
Its motto is "Safer Lives, Safer Ships, Cleaner Seas"
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