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With Trango Disaster Management – You Don’t
Have To Be
 A friend of mine is employed as a highly professional
security advisor for the United Nations (UN). He often has to travel
around the world alone in conflict torn & remote areas where mobile
signals for his Blackberry are at best sporadic and at worst, non-existent.
He works in a world where threats from heavily armed insurgents are the
norm, land mines – a constant hazard.
YEMEN AID WORKER
Thankfully,
so far, my friend has been lucky – for on occasion, even members of
the armed forces vanish: becoming hostages of extremist factions. ‘Risk’ is not the sole
property of the military however, and the world’s press sometimes
have to churn out a headline that reads ‘Aid Worker Believed
Kidnapped’ or ‘Scientists Missing on Erupting Volcano’.
Rescue teams are caught out - buried in blinding snowstorms:
fire-fighters lose their way in the dense smoke of a burning forest.
Businessmen & women are quietly snatched and held for ransom by drug
cartels or other criminal elements. Journalists are another obvious
target for abduction.
YOU CAN BECOME LOST IN THE AMAZON (Photo left)
OR ON BRITAIN’S DARTMOOR (Photo below right).
Explorers
and relief agency personnel are also at risk from rebels but sometimes
they fall into the danger zone by just simply getting lost. But you
don’t have to be up the Amazon or become a health worker in the
Yemen to disappear without trace.
 Even school kids out for an adventure in
Britain’s Dartmoor National Park, an 954 square kilometres
(368 sq mi) area of moorland in the centre
of Devon, England can quickly manage to become disorientated, hypothermic
and in serious trouble without too much difficulty as adverse weather
suddenly rolls in.
 Ships & yachts go missing on a regular basis:
often due to bad weather.
However,
merchant ships also suffer pirate attacks: private yachts are not immune
either to these armed vultures of the sea. Ports mislay entire containers
and other valuable cargo more times than you would think.
SOMALI PIRATES
 THE PORT
OF SINGAPORE
Singapore
Port security is certainly of a high sttandard
but even in a well run establishment – items go missing: high
power, high cost generators being a favourite prize. Looking at war
zones, the situation becomes much worse. Tractor trailers, tank recovery
vehicles, crates of machine guns and rocket propelled grenades are just a
sampling of more than $1 billion in unaccounted military equipment provided
to the Iraqi security forces that’s simply gone missing. For
example, according to one report, the military could not account for
12,712 out of 13,508 weapons, including pistols, assault rifles, rocket
propelled grenade launchers and machine guns. The crates had gone:
thieves even stole the trucks used to transport the goods.
FRENCH NUCLEAR MATERIAL ON THE MOVE
Back
in 2004, auditors found that U.S. Dept of Energy could not accurately
account for various quantities or find the locations of nuclear material
at 15 out of 40, or 37 percent, of facilities reviewed. The materials
written off included 20,580 grams of enriched uranium, 45 grams of
plutonium, 5,001 kilograms of normal uranium and 189,139 kilograms of
depleted uranium.
You
think that’s worrying. They even lose nuclear bombs. They say at
least 11 nuclear weapons of the bomb type have been lost by the U.S. This
is not counting other types of nuclear weapons. It was also estimated
back in 2004 that over the years a further 92 nuclear bombs were lost at
sea if you count in all nuclear capable countries. Ask what nuclear
devices or nuclear material has vanished across our globe between 2004
and the closing months of 2010 – well, believe me, you just
don’t want to go there.
The Golden Hour
If
someone or something goes missing, if a natural disaster, an accident or
a terrorist attack happens - they call the first hour after the event the
‘Golden Hour’ because those initial sixty minutes are
critical to providing an effective & successful response to the
incident in question.
AN INDONESIAN VOLCANO SUDDENLY ERUPTS: CAN YOU
IMMEDIATELY IDENTIFY WHERE YOUR KEY PERSONNEL ARE?
The
benefit of relevant authorities receiving immediate information
confirming that a problem has occurred, instant intelligence as to the
location of the emergency cannot be underestimated. One way to ensure
this advantage is by the use of real time tracking with GPRS and/or
Iridium & Inmarsat Satellite.
One
UK company that has certainly established a reputation for reliability,
fast response and cost effectiveness in this area of technology is Trango Disaster Management & Response Services.
All at sea
 GPS CHART
PLOT
For
many years, as the ‘Old Man’ of a rescue vessel (or very old
man as my wife would say), I held the opinion that ‘to err is human
but if you really wanted to mess up – use a computer!’ Armed with tried and proven
equipment, my parallel ruler, pencil, compass and sextant, I didn’t
see the need to change. However, in recent years, I have come to accept
that research & development (R&D), computers & satellites
have made navigation more accurate, communication instantaneous and life
at sea safer. In my world, the latest GPS plus other newly developed
maritime technology provides useful backup to traditional methods but -
in many cases - also arms me with a faster, more efficient way to respond
to emergencies.
Being
able to track the movement, direction and speed of other vessels in my
vicinity is invaluable. I can instantaneously back-track my course in a
‘man-overboard’ scenario. These days, I press one button to
instantly alert the coastguard of an emergency, my ship’s position
and a mass of other information without even having to say one word over
the radio. They, in turn, can feed me with real time data on any casualty
and track my progress as our ship responds and it’s all being
recorded on the wide flat screen in my bridge – cleverly integrated
with my radar, sonar and every other system on the ship. State of the art
technology even tells me when my generator is about to pack up – so
giving me time to revert back (well, you never know) to my constantly
updated paper Admiralty charts.
Emergency
planning, training and exercises are designed to build confidence and
ensure your companies ability to respond effectively to incidents arising
from any and all eventualities. Fleet monitoring services include the use
of AIS and vessel tracking systems with panic alarms.
Maritime
intelligence assists with passage planning and vessel routing. Planned
navigational tracks can be ‘geo‐fenced’ so that Trango
is immediately alerted to any significant deviation.
Scheduled
safety calls (skeds) especially in high risk
areas) allows the status of the vessel to be closely monitored.
The
safety of staff travelling on business / crew joining or leaving a vessel
is assured by using Trango’s Safe Travel
System (TSTS).
AIS FLEET MONITORING
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A
single point of contact ashore (all risks /all hazards) to notify
vessel owner / operator, cargo owner, crew agency, agent’s
authorities and agencies in the event of a major incident or to seek
support. Access to security/ routing advice 24/7/365 reduces risk of
Piracy.
Physical
security advice, security ‘Sea Riders’, training and
exercises are available. A tracking unit with an independent panic
alarm can be used to indicate incidents such as Piracy where ships equipment
might be damaged or in cases where overt indication might not be
appropriate
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. Mutual
support, convoy co‐ordination
and a safety call ‘sked’ service is
also provided.
 Cruise
Liners
Photo
left: ISLAND ESCAPE – THE
CRUISE INDUSTRY CONTINUES TO ATTRACT THOUSANDS OF TOURISTS
A portable
Crisis Command Control Communications and Intelligence (C4i) solution
enables the display and management of the ship, its boats and the
security / safety of ships tours and individual passengers. A wide
variety of sensors (including radar, infra red, video, live tracking and
underwater swimmer detection) can be integrated. The system can be viewed
/ operated onboard, from Trango Operations and
/ or a crisis management team perhaps thousands of miles away. During a
crisis the operational picture is also available to the company crisis
management team. A database of security incidents can be provided for key
areas so that ‘hot spots’ can be avoided. Mass ‘Warning
and Informing’ can be used to pass urgent messages to those ashore
and / or to rapidly determine the safety of everybody ashore. Trango continually monitors major weather systems,
natural disaster / tsunami alerts around the world; where necessary
proactively alerts ships to dangers that might impact safety and
security.
Alongside
Mutli sensor Harbour
Control Systems (HCS) can be provided to monitor and manage the tactical
picture. The safety of passengers / crew ashore can be significantly
enhanced by the use of live tracking systems with panic alarms monitored
by Harbour Control (or the ship) and Trango
Operations.
Global Tracking
 Many universities worldwide actively encourage
students to take a ‘gap-year’. Quite often, this involves
volunteer work in third world countries – often placing the student
in remote areas where there could be possible threats from terrorists,
insurgents, epidemics, natural disasters …
ARE
YOUR STUDENTS VISITING A REMOTE AREA?
It
would therefore seem obvious that the use of high tech tracking systems
for individuals - who might be at risk of attack, kidnap or simply
getting lost in a harsh and unforgiving environment – is a sensible
idea. Secure that ‘Golden Hour’. It also makes sense to track
nuclear material, cargo, items of a sensitive nature or high value
assets: vehicles, ships, yachts.
You can also track teenagers & university students on their
gap year as they explore our beautiful but unfortunately all too
dangerous planetary home. What is surprising is that few take advantage
of this readily available technology or the response & backup
services of the type an organization such as Trango
can offer.
 Trango delivers and maintains ‘fit for purpose’
disaster management facilities, systems, plans and procedures to ensure a
fully integrated rapid response to major incidents is in place. A single
point of contact 24/7/365 notifies company management of major incidents
and mobilizes resources anywhere in the world to save life; protect the
environment, property and company image and reputation.
GLASGOW AIRPORT SCOTLAND WAS ATTACKED WITHOUT WARNING
AS TERRORISTS RAMMED THE TERMINAL BUILDING WITH A VEHICLE CONTAINING A
HOME MADE BOMB.
SHOUT
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 The solution is managed and supported by Trango’s 24/7/365 Operations Centre for
clients regularly travelling to high risk areas and countries. Tracking
settings are set in accordance with client requirements so as to
protect users’ privacy whilst maintaining maximum global support.
Trango provides 24/7/365 monitoring of staff
movements and response of panic alarms, speed alerts, manual position
reports and safety zone crossings. The tracking map is available at
different access levels via a secure web platform for managers/HR.
SHOUT
KEY FEATURES: ‐ GLOBAL TRACKING +
DISTRESS MONITORING
POCKET SIZED GPS/
DISTRESS/ TEXT DEVICE
COMMUNICATE GLOBALLY AND
CHANGE TRACKING FREQUENCY ON THE FLY PRIMARY MAN DOWN FOLLOWING SERVICE
WHAT
IT DOES:
Real‐time tracking (anywhere
on the planet)
Distress
button
Canned
messages out (100 can be loaded)
Free
text back (i.e. are you ok? / what’s happening?)
Location
(GPS)
Confirmation
of fix and messages sent
This
device is the size of an iPhone but 3 times
as thick and 180 grams in weight, other features include: •
Internal lithium ion batteries (rechargeable) • Standard USB
phone connector for power • LCD screen • Waterproof •
Milspec 80f rating • Emergency distress
switch • Basic key pad
*For fully managed support, Trango recommends that tracking is complimented
with the Trango Safe Travel System TSTS: a
web based tool which delivers a fully implemented safe travel
management solution.
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Changing Attitudes with Trango Safe Travel System (TSTS)
   
Many
people who are working in or travelling through remote or high risk areas
of the world - although clearly understanding how they might be exposed
to a variety of threats including operational incidents, natural
disasters and terrorism - don’t take the time to think of
safeguards. It’s not just young guys & girls on an adventure
holiday or university students that – with no sensible back up in
place - rush out ‘to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new
life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone
before’. Government departments, massive organizations (even the
United Nations) & major international charities continuously send
their people out without any means of being able to instantly track their
position or receive real time data on their circumstances. In some cases, travellers or
volunteers who have answered a call for assistance during a natural
disaster may not be missed until they are overdue on their return –
especially where communications are affected by working in different time
zones or where a disaster has reduced normal communication to crisis
level. It is essential to safeguard your business or organization by
providing your travelling staff with immediate assistance or support that
may be crucial to their security, or even their lives.
   
Trango’s safe
travel expertise speeds up reaction time and keeps you in the picture
about all staff moving around the world. Trango
will keep staff safe and proactively monitor and alert anything that
affects their health, safety or security. Whether calamity has struck
affecting a whole region or an individual colleague is in need of rapid
repatriation, you retain the control you need to resolve matters fast.
Response to travel related incidents will no longer be delayed by lack of
awareness, slow access to vital facts or poor synchronisation between
different internal systems.
 Has Mother Nature finally provided the military with
that one victory that has so far eluded most armed forces around the
world – positive press coverage, complimentary public relations and
the thanks and smiles of local communities? Quite possibly, for the
military are increasingly taking up the role of frontline first
responders in major disaster scenarios and their humanitarian missions
are clearly changing the public’s attitude: the navy, marines, army
and air force being seen as a Force for Good.
UNITED STATES MILITARY PERSONNEL ASSIST IN DISASTER
RELIEF
Global Sentinel
Assets
situated all over the world can be impacted by sudden unplanned events
causing injury, environmental impact, damage to plant, property or other
business interruption and associated financial loss. Insurance policies
require organisations to advise insurers of loss
in a timely manner; in most cases this is within 24 hours. Failure to
comply may have an impact on recoverable loss and in extreme cases may
invalidate an insurance policy. Insurance claims impact the cost of
renewal.
Early
detection of potential incidents can save life, protect the environment
and significantly reduce loss. Proactive steps can be taken to make
assets safe, prepare for damage and minimise associated loss. Global
Sentinel accelerates an organisation’s response and provides timely
feedback and discussion with insurers demonstrating that the organisation
manages risk effectively and allowing better terms and rates to be
negotiated at renewal. It enables rapid determination of the status of
Assets and facilitates better management of stakeholders including
insurers, stock market and media following a natural disaster.
TRANGO’S OPERATIONAL CENTER
Trango Operations
scans the threat horizon 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
looking for issues / extreme events or incidents that might impact the
safety security or integrity of your people and assets. The scope of your
service is defined during the setup meeting but might include but not
limited to:
Natural
disaster. Cyclones / hurricanes, tornados. Earthquake and volcanic
eruption.
Locust
plague
Tsunami
Alerts
Extreme
weather; Snow / Sandstorms heavy rain etc
Tidal
surge and flooding
Lightning
strikes / bush fire / wild fire
Coup d’etat / political and civil unrest
Piracy
Kidnap
/ hostage / hijack
Critical
national infrastructure failure
Health
alerts
Strikes
Pollution
/ chemical release
Aircraft
accident
Landslide
Heat
Nuclear
plant emergency
Hazardous
material
Chemical
There’s
no doubt that Trango’s Global Sentinel is
a bespoke service tailored to your needs. The company provides clients
with an Emergency Hotline and advice line for support. Potential issues
are identified and Trango then notifies a
nominated point of contact within your organisation. Depending on urgency
this may be via voice, email, SMS or all three. Trango
contacts individual sites to determine their status and reports back to
the nominated point of contact. After an incident and once notification
is made, further assistance can be provided on a best endeavours basis.
If required, Trango will scan the threat
horizon for other risks. Global Sentinel is delivered in English but over
150 languages available in just 2 minutes.
Introduction to IRIDIUM
Networks
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The Iridium System is a satellite‐based,
wireless communications network providing a robust suite of Voice and
Data services to virtually any destination anywhere on earth. Only 780km (450 miles) high,
these satellites work different from those at a much higher orbit (26,000km).
They're close enough to receive the signals of a handheld
device.
They act like cellular towers in the sky - wireless
signals can move overhead instead of through ground based cells.
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The Inmarsat
system
 This system is widely used for all types of
communications on land and sea. In addition to voice and data
communications a number of Inmarsat based
tracking solutions can be provided. Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN)
service, for example, is now enabling TV broadcasters to beam breaking
news 'live via videophone' into millions of homes. In future, when you
make a mobile phone call or send a text message from an aircraft, most
likely it will be transmitted via Inmarsat
satellites to the ground.
Inmarsat have
providing safety critical services to the maritime industry for many
years. There are some gaps in coverage and an Inmarsat
tracking unit is not suitable for use in the higher latitudes (above 70
degrees North and South) in the polar regions.
AVI Fleet Tracking
Trango’s AVI
Fleet Tracker aims to integrate both GSM, GPRS
and Iridium into one device. The unit has very low latency time and can
send data from anywhere in the world in just a few seconds via the
Iridium network. It also operates at 1.6G Radio band frequency which
allows it to be installed into Aircraft.
It is
available with multiple options including –
•
Camera
•
Fuel Level Sensor
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Temperature Sensor
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Vibration sensor
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G‐sensor
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Small printer (for GPRS network only)
‘It won’t
happen to me’
is a phrase
heard all too often.
Well it does happen to
some……..
In
2008/9 the UK FCO dealt with nearly 2.1 million consular assistance
enquiries across the world. In addition to over 3000 hospitalisations,
5500 deaths and 7000 detentions, they responded to 34,443 further
requests for assistance.
The
foreign office provides intelligence based advice on a real time basis
and makes recommendations regarding travel. This advice can change hourly and
as such should be monitored. www.fco.gov.uk/travel.
The
four most serious threats to travellers abroad are:
* Medical
crisis
* Natural
and manmade disasters
* Inability
to communicate effectively with UK base through loss of comms.
* Caught
in a terrorist incident e.g. bombing, kidnap,
attack or hijack.
Serious
though these threats may be there can be a misguided assumption that help
is immediately at hand or that they couldn’t have been avoided.
Prior
to any journey being undertaken a documented process should be in place
which guides the traveller through a ‘check list’ which would
ensure the traveller is aware of the planning they should complete.
Within the checklist would be items such as good travel insurance,
medical evacuation, a detailed country brief covering medical
requirements, cultural issues and any specific ‘meet and
greet’ arrangements at the destination.
Many
trips require the use of International, internal and chartered airlines
to reach remote locations or production sites. Whilst International
Airlines can quickly be checked out for their safety record, as can many
internal airlines, the lesser known charter companies, some flying
helicopters, should be scrutinised to see what risk rating they have been
given by the Civil Aviation Authority of the particular country.
The
final pre-journey check is the authorisation for the journey to take
place; this involves the line manager who should ensure all checks have
been completed. If the planning stage is approached with meticulous
thought with each stage being question with ‘what if’ many
potential problems can be alleviated, however when things do go wrong they
usually go wrong very quickly which is when a 24/7/365 support centre
proves to be invaluable.
Problems
for the traveller can manifest themselves in many ways, road traffic
accidents, loss of passports or credit cards, security issues during the
journey.
Good
Intelligence/country briefs can help to prepare the traveller but things
can go wrong that haven’t been predicted e.g. Coup de Tait or a Natural Disaster. It is at this stage that
the planning and support available becomes critical and questions come
fast, who do I tell? How do I tell them? What must I do to try and
minimise the impact on personal safety?
  
Traveling can be a
great source of education but it does also have hidden dangers and these
do not just go away as the traveller steps off the aircraft when they
return to home soil. Pandemic natural disasters can silently arrive in
virus form as has been demonstrated very recently. Following bird flu
scares, the world went on alert for Swine Flu. Haiti is now battling
Cholera and once again, the military have been called in to assist
– alongside the World Health Organization, United Nations,
international charities and Disaster Management Response Teams. Pandemics
can spread without warning and can catch the unwary traveller by surprise
many weeks after their return. The tracking and retention of travellers
journeys could be used to identify where a particular infection/disease
was contracted by the traveler and in turn who
else may have been exposed to the infection/disease if it is contagious.
Clearly
military units and government representatives responding to a pandemic
carry out sterling work within the communities affected. However,
military logistics take time and in a time of crisis speed is of the
essence. When the unexpected strikes a member of staff, employers, the
families of those individuals and most importantly of all those affected
on the ground need to know exactly what is available to them and most
importantly what may not be. As such business men and women within the Defense and NS&R sectors should be wary about
making assumptions regarding sufficient capacity to cope with a crisis or
to plug gaps in their resource.
All
companies currently seeking to exploit business opportunities in
countries defined by the FCO as representing any degree of risk to the
employee should perhaps ask the following questions.
* Do
they have an ‘Emergency Response Plan’ in place?
* Do
they have an immediate, strategic and logistically relevant crisis
management and contingency plans to support the work of their employees
in areas designated as of potential risk?
* Have
they sufficiently mitigated their corporate responsibility effectively
under current governance laws?
* Do
they undertake exercises annually to determine their actual capability?
* Do
they have the capability to manage a potential crisis?
* Do
they provide the appropriate training for international travel?
* Can
they deal with the media?
For
companies, having their personnel travelling around the world these days
is not as easy as some would be led to believe.
Disaster Management
Photo
above right: U.S. Hospital Ship Comfort. The United States are often
responding to natural disasters and provide global communities with
massive aid.
Disaster
Management and Response companies assist major defense
organizations during each crisis: the U.S often heading up Command and
Control (C&C).
DMR
groups and Rapid Response Teams must work closely with the military and
liaise with local authorities.
I
asked Frank Smyth President Disaster Management at Trango
to give me an idea as to how his organization assists in a disaster
scenario.
Frank
told me “The scale of the response depends on the size of the
incident, small earthquakes would illicit slightly less intense response
than say a Tsunami type incident on the scale of 26th December 2006, but
regardless of the scenario, the organisation has to be flexible enough to
get the Command and Control facilities on the ground and functional as
soon as possible. Time is of the essence. In order to play a worthwhile
role a Rapid Response Center Team have to be
fully autonomous and take all of the equipment and personnel they need
with them.
 Many disasters such as Cyclones, Typhoons and
Hurricanes can be pre‐empted and equipment pre‐positioned close to the
incident so that they become fully operational as soon as the storm has
passed. The RRC Team’s equipment would be kept at a constant state
of readiness and when activated would be en route within four hours,
however personnel would be on the move as soon as the alert is sent out
and would accompany the equipment en route to the scene of the incident.
The
equipment that would be included with such a response would include the
latest communications equipment that could involve mobile phone networks,
satellite communications, UAV’s (see
photo), data to assist in rescue coordination i.e. GIS mapping of the
area, touch tables that would allow the processing and dissemination of
received data so that relief agencies were all working with the same
correlated information.”
He
went on to say, “Additional equipment would include satellite
tracking for personnel and vehicles, each team member would be registered
on a safe travel data base so that their medical/personnel details were
available if required, support would come from the parent Disaster
Management Centre in the UK who would track the progress of a mission and
offer advice assistance as required.”
 
Photo above left: Trango’s
DMR Room
Photo above center: Trango
monitors the world’s weather 24/7/365
Those
words ‘offer advise assistance as required’ also take you
into Trango’s world of assessment,
training, evaluation - for Trango currently
provides extensive DMR training and exercises for clients from the
planning stage through to exercise scenario, desktop training, report
writing and annual exercises. Trango works with
all levels of the organisation, building skills and competencies of staff
throughout the training process and ensuring that each and every aspect
of a disaster is covered:
•
Room design.
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Identifying and reviewing the risks
to
both within the site and the
surrounding area.
•
Access to Trango’s Informer System
and
Emergency Hotline to mobilise
the DMR.
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Working with trusted agencies.
•
Gradually building the challenge
and
severity of scenarios as the
team’s
competencies grow.
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Utilising role players: T.V
crews/Media
to enhance the
scenario.
•
Next of kin/relative telephone
response
training/call handling.
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Media response training.
•
Evacuation training including
communications
and emergency
reception centre.
Over
the past few years Trango personnel have been
involved with supporting operations associated with mining, oil and gas
production and exploration. The company have over twenty years experience
working in Africa, the Americas, Canada, the Far East and the Gulf
States.
An Uncertain World
Oil Workers Attacked
This
month, gunmen in Nigeria have attacked an oil rig and seized five workers
after a recent lull in such raids. Afren, the
company which operates the offshore rig, said two workers had been
wounded. The nationality of those taken hostage is not clear. The raid
came as an e-mail was sent to journalists warning of new attacks on oil
installations in the Niger Delta. Violence in the oil-producing region
had subsided after the main militant group accepted an amnesty last year.
The gunmen had also attacked a support ship. The wounded pair have been flown by helicopter for medical treatment,
it said. The company did not provide any further details of the attack
but said drilling operations had been suspended. Violence in the Delta
region had caused a sharp fall in Nigeria's oil output until the amnesty
offer saw thousands of gunmen lay down their arms. But a faction of the
main militant group is accused of carrying out twin car-bombings in the
capital, Abuja as Nigeria was celebrating 50 years of independence on 1
October.
Indonesian Volcano –
Fresh Eruption
Mount Merapi volcano spews smoke as it erupted
again as seen from Sidorejo village in Klaten, near the ancient city of Yogyakarta,
November 3, 2010. Mount Merapi has killed at
least 39 people since it began erupting on October 26. Over 74 have been
injured and more than 70,000 people have been evacuated, according to
Indonesia's National Disaster Management Board.
At
least 11 people have been killed in a fresh eruption of Indonesia's Mount
Merapi volcano. About 50 others were injured
when a gas cloud hit mountainside villages with even greater force than
previous recent eruptions. A total of at least 55 people have now been
killed. An estimated 75,000 have been evacuated from the area. Mount Merapi, one of the world's most active volcanoes, is
located in a densely populated area in central Java. The fresh eruption
began late in the day, sending residents streaming down the mountain with
ash-covered faces. The authorities have decided to widen the "danger
zone" around the crater from 15 km (9 miles) to 20km (12 miles). Earlier,
eyewitnesses said the volcano had been spewing clouds of hot ash and gas
some 5km (three miles) into the sky. Scientists are warning of further
eruptions in the coming weeks.
World Champion Racing
Driver Flees Assailants
 Armed men have attacked a car carrying British
Formula 1 driver Jenson Button in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo. Button
was unhurt, said a statement from the McLaren
F1 team. Button had been in practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, and will start 11th on the grid. Brazil's
major cities have a bad record for serious crimes of violence, which have
caused concern ahead of major events like the 2014 World Cup.
"Would-be assailants made an attempt to approach the car that was
carrying Jenson Button" on Saturday, said the statement from McLaren. Button, 33, was quickly driven away by an armed policemen in the reinforced armoured
vehicle provided by McLaren. Button's manager
Richard Goddard and trainer Mike Collier were also in the vehicle. Mr
Goddard said: "We were about three or four minutes away from the
circuit when the incident took place.” Three years ago members of
Toyota's F1 team escaped a similar situation when they were also
approached by gunmen.
It’s only a
suggestion but in this uncertain world of ours, an enquiry to Trango Disaster Management & Response Services
might be quite a good idea.
It could ensure that you
are not ‘Up the river without a paddle.’
DIIA © 2010
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0.29
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At traffic signals
continue forward onto Chichester By Pass - A27 (signposted
Portsmouth, Bognor Regis)
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A27
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0.29
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0.52
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At Bognor Road
Roundabout take the 3rd exit onto Chichester By Pass -
A27 (signposted Portsmouth) Entering Chichester
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A27
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0.81
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0.72
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At Whyke
Roundabout take the 1st exit onto Hunston
Road - B2145 (signposted Selsey)
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B2145
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1.53
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0.72
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At roundabout take the
2nd exit onto the B2145 (signposted Selsey)
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B2145
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2.25
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0.44
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Continue forward onto
the B2145. Entering Hunston
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B2145
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2.69
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1.22
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Continue forward onto
the B2145. Entering Sidlesham Common
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B2145
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3.91
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1.59
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Continue forward onto Selsey Road - B2145. Entering Sidlesham
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B2145
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5.5
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1.83
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Turn right into Trident
Business Park. Arrive at Trango Ltd PO20
9DY,Selsey
(Out of working hours
access via Trango Operations +44 1243 608550)
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7.33
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By Train:
Chichester is the nearest
train station to Trango. Taxis are available
from outside the main entrance of the station. Trango
is 20 minutes taxi journey from Chichester station. For train
journey details visit National Rail Enquires: www.nationalrail.co.uk
By Helicopter :
Helicopter Landing Zone
50°44'51.13"N 0°47'16.46"W
Surface - Grass
Unlit – daylight
only.
Hazards - be aware power
lines approximately 500m to East of LZ.
Land owner approval to be
sought via Trango Operations +44 1243 608550
prior to use.
By Light Aircraft
Trango is 8.9 miles (23 minutes by road) from Goodwood Aerodrome. Transfers can be arranged
via Trango Operations (T: +44 1243 608550).
Details are as follows:
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Chichester/Goodwood Aerodrome,
Goodwood, Chichester,
West Sussex , PO18 0PH
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Location:
1.5 Nautical Miles North
North East of Chichester
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Contact info:
email: control@goodwood.co.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1243 755061
Facsimile: +44 (0)1243 755062
for general enquiries.
ICAO identifier: EGHR
Website: http://www.goodwood.co.uk/aviation/aeroinfo.htm
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50 51 33 N 00 45 33 W
Elevation 110ft
Operating Hours
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Winter:
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Dec-Jan 0900-1600;
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Nov, Feb and March
0900-1700
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Summer:
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0800-1700
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Extensions to the
operating hours can be arranged. Movements outside operating hours must
be prearranged.
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