air-sea rescue
Ocean emergency extraction
Air-sea rescue is the coordinated effort to locate and retrieve people in distress at sea, typically involving aircraft and boats working together.
Military and coast guard units conduct most air-sea rescue operations: The pilot was picked up by air-sea rescue within hours of ditching.
The term often appears as a modifier: air-sea rescue helicopter, air-sea rescue team.
- paramedicPrehospital emergency caregiver
- life raftInflatable emergency watercraft
- life jacketWearable flotation device
- pilotOne who steers aircraft
- emergency evacuationRapid departure from danger
survival kit · mayday · beacon · man overboard · navigator · flight crew · distress signal · emergency beacon · helicopter · winchman · coast guard · hypothermia · search pattern · radar system · open ocean · rough seas · dispatcher · medical evacuation
- air rescuemedevac, air ambulance, airlift, life flight, medevac helicopter