1. Maritime Training Academy Bear Search and Rescue Foundation “So That Others May Live” Training/ Equipping / Transporting Search & Rescue Teams BSARF Marine Safety Service Division

2. Interagency Mass Casualty Marine Rescue Course When Bad Things Happen

3. Thinking about the unthinkable ► Emergency Management ► Is Event Management

4. Whether it’s the largest building in the world

5. Or Escorting a Marine Event It is just Event Management

6. Skill Training & Review

7. Setting the Stage

8. It Can Happen Here Not “If”---”When”

9. All Hazard Training

10. It Won’t Happen Here ► Galveston, Texas 1900 ► Galveston, Texas 1900 ► C A T E G O R Y : 4 D E A T H S : more than 8,000 D A M A G E : $29.6 billion (in 1998 dollars) ► The greatest natural disaster to ever strike the United States occurred in Galveston, Texas. In the early evening hours of Sept. 8, 1900, a hurricane came ashore in Texas bringing with it a great storm surge that inundated most of Galveston Island and the city of Galveston. Much of the city was destroyed and at least 8,000 people were killed in a few hours and the city of Galveston. Much of the city was destroyed and at least 8,000 people were killed in a few hours.

11. It Can’t Happen Here ► TWA Flight 800 Crash ► Location: East Moriches L.I. On July 17, 1996 ► TWA Flight 800 ► New York to Paris exploded in flames off Long Island ► Casualties: 230

12. It Can’t Happen Here ► Hurricane Andrew ► C A T E G O R Y : 4 D E A T H S : 26 D A M A G E : 36.8 billion August 1992 Andrew most ferocious hurricane with unprecedented economic devastation a path through southern Florida south-central Louisiana. Damage in the United States was estimated to be a staggering $36.8 billion (in 1998 dollars), making Andrew the most expensive natural disaster in United States history $36 billion dollars.

13. It Can’t Happen Here ► Value Jet ► May 11, 1996 ► Location: Everglades Florida ► Casualties: 110 ► Cause: Improper Packaging of hazardous oxygen cylinders

14. It Can Happen Here ► Worlds Worst Ferry Disaster 1987 Dec. 20: over 4,000 killed Ferry: Dona Paz Collision with oil tanker Victor off Mindoro Island 110 mi south of Manila

15. It Can Happen here! Staten Island Ferry

16. Managing Chaos Maximize your ability to do the Job

17. The 500 Year Flood

18. The Storm Surge Came from the Sea

19. City Strike

20. The Devastation to the City Destroyed the Infrastructure

21. Access & Egress ► The City is cut off ► Bridges & Tunnels Rendered useless

22. Rail Lines Destroyed

23. Except by Sea & Air

25. Electricity and Gas Sources are Lost Hazardous Materials Spill

26. Responders Rushing to the City Create Gridlock

27. Response Centered on the Waterfront

28. Priority Cargo & Personnel arrived by Air

29. Egress from the Affected Areas

30. And Sea

31. Although the Navy Sent Fifty Hovercraft, Landing Craft & Amphibious Vehicles

32. There was no where to land them! There was not one boat ramp built in Manhattan!

33. Manhattan Encircled by Sea Wall

34. Roads Accessing NYC Flooded Hazardous Materials Containment Areas Compromised

35. It Does Happen Here !

36. Much of Low Land New Jersey & Long Island Lay Under Water