The Dubai Police maritime rescue patrols\nhave recently rescued a GCC family after their yacht broke down due to a\ntechnical glitch near Jumeriah Palm.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The swift response to the family’s\nreport contributed to preventing the yacht from drifting and colliding into the\nrock breaker despite the strong sea currents and high waves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Colonel Dr Hassan Suhail Al\nSuwaidi, Director of Ports Police Station, the Command-and-Control Centre at\nDubai Police received a distress call from the GCC family whose yacht broke\ndown in the middle of the sea. “The Station, which has across nine marine\npoints across in Dubai, immediately responded to the call and handled the\nsituation with extreme finesse and professionalism”, he confirmed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Col. Al Suwaidi explained the maritime\nrescue patrols were immediately dispatched to the yacht coordinates which was\nbeing hit by the high wave and strong currents thus endangering the family’s\nlives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur teams transferred the family to a\nrescue boat and provided them with life jackets before they were transferred to\nsafety ashore,\u201d \u201cWe then towed the broken-down yacht out of the sea onto the\nport,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sail Safely<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dubai Police urged owners of boats,\nships and yachts to take advantage of the \u2018Sail Safely\u2019 service through the\nsmart app of Dubai Police. The \u2018Sail\nSafely\u2019 service via Dubai Police App tracks sea journeys, alerts users to\ndelays during a sea trip, identifies hazards, sends distress messages directly\nto the Dubai Police and helps with rapid emergency responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Sail Safely\u2019 service\ncan track a cruise’s journey; warn users about any delays during the trip;\nidentify hazards; send distress requests directly to the Dubai Police;\nfacilitate rapid emergency response; determine the location of those in\ndistress as well as the type and degree of distress severity. The service also provides users with free and\neasy access interactive marine maps. It also allows users to determine the\nemergency: drowning, collision, shortage of fuel, or boat malfunction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The marine service\nensures the jurisdiction area of the Ports Police Station is completely covered.\n99 per cent of the received emergency calls were within the scope of \u2018Sail\nSafely\u2019 coverage and that it covers an area of seven nautical miles in depth\nand 70 nautical miles along Dubai coasts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Dubai Police maritime rescue patrols have recently rescued a GCC family after their yacht broke down due to a technical glitch near Jumeriah Palm. The swift response to the family’s report contributed to preventing the yacht from drifting and colliding into the rock breaker despite the strong sea currents and high waves. According to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42800,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42798\/revisions\/42800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}