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I was curious too.

> Contacted by CBS News, the Canadian Coast Guard said the rescue operation was being managed by the Boston Regional Coordination Center, and a map showing jurisdictions for the various coastal search and rescue agencies off the North American coast shows the location of the Titanic wreck within the Boston center's area of responsibility.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/titanic-submarine-missing-rescu... https://sarcontacts.info/contacts/rcc-boston-1st-district-57...

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I always assumed the Titanic went down further north. Didn't know there were icebergs that far south.

Edit: they float there https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wea.2...

The Titanic didn't know there were icebergs that far south either.

The search and rescue jurisdiction map is fascinating, although some of those areas are so huge that I wonder how much it really means in practice. If you're lost off the coast of Ecuador, are you really supposed to call the San Francisco Coast Guard?

There are some very strange areas on that map. Check out the large swathe of the East China Sea near China, the Koreas, and Taiwan, the responsibility of Russian search and rescue in Vladivostok.

https://sarcontacts.info/srrs/ru_pac/

It generally doesn't matter who you call. The call and rescue efforts will be directed through the designated control centre.

This kind of rescue redirect is especially common now with the advent of EPIRBs (Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacons) which are registered to a particular country/authority, but work anywhere in the world. If your Lisbon-registered is activated far enough off the coast of Ecuador to be in the SF zone (and assuming the map is correct), the ARCC Lisboa will contact the SF MRCC and they'll co-ordinate the rescue effort.

How interesting that the areas approximately match those of the North Atlantic oceanic air traffic control regions!

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