IV Utilizing Natural Energy in Aids to Navigation
The Number of Aids to Navigation utilizing natural energy increased by 166 as a result of new constructions and improvements, and repairs carried out in FY 1999, and as of the end of FY 1999, they numbered 1,758 accounting for 32% of the total 5,534 Aids to Navigation. As regards methods of use, JCG uses wind, solar and wave generators independently or combined.
Chapter 9 International Activities Related to Maritime Safety
I Cooperation and Solidarity With Related Countries
1. Maintenance of Public Security
The cargo ship, ALONDRA RAINBOW (about 7,000 gross tonnage, 17 crew members, including two Japanese) lost contact on 22 October 1999 after leaving Kuala Tanjung Port, Sumatra for Japan.
JCG, which received the information about the missing cargo ship on 27 October, immediately disseminated the information to the Rescue Coordination Centers (RCC) of the countries concerned, and asked them to conduct search and rescue operations. JCG, for its part, dispatched a patrol vessel, Hayato, and longrange airplanes to conduct search operations from the air and sea.
As a result of these operations and cooperation with the counterparts of related countries, the ship itself was found, pursued and then seized by the Indian Coast Guard at sea 270 nautical miles west of Goa, India on 16 November, while all the crew were found and rescued by a passing fishing ship on 9 November when they were drifting on a life raft near the Phuket Islands, Thailand.
