Annex 2
Amendments to be made to certain IMO documents
GMDSS Handbook (Publication IMO-970E)
Figure 1 General concept of the GMDSS
Bottom right, delete the box "SAR information"
COMSAR/Circ.15 "Joint IMO/IHO/WMO manual on maritime safety information" (the pages are those of the English version)
Page 2
Table of Contents: delete the line: Search and Rescue"
Page 6, 2.2.1.2:
replace the definition by "Maritime safety information service means a co-ordinated service for the promulgation of one or more categories of maritime safety information";
Page 9, 2.5.3:
delete the paragraph
Page 10, 3.1.1
Add a new .7 as follows:
"at the request of the controlling maritime rescue co-ordination centre (MRCC), notification of ships and aircraft on or over the open sea reported in distress, seriously overdue or missing (when search and rescue operations have been stood down after a fruitless search, when failing to find a ship alongside in a port search, or when a ship is several days overdue and contact cannot be established);"
Pages 10 - 11:
renumber existing .7 to .13 as .8 to .14;
Page 22, 3.2.3
B8 MISCELLANEOUS
Title, after the word MISCELLANEOUS, add: (for search and rescue, see 3.3)
Delete the following cases given as examples:
5th case "95 FOOT FISHING VESSEL..."
7th and 8th cases: "VESSEL IN DISTRESS...", "VESSEL IN DIFFICULTY";
add a section 3.3; see new page 27 annexed;
renumber the existing pages 27 to 33 as 28 to 24 and correct the Table of Contents accordingly
Page 33, chapter 5:
delete this page.
