Rescue at Sea is Getting More Accurate:
Introducing "MEOSAR"
In a typical satellite-based search and rescue scenario, ships, aircraft or individuals transmit distress signals from an emergency location beacon via satellite to a fixed ground receiving station or local user terminal. The ground station calculates the location of the  distress situation and sends an alert to the appropriate rescue authorities. Today, the beacon-to-alert process depends on a limited number of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites and may take several hours before a position is confirmed. With MEOSAR, beacon signals will be received more quickly and beacon locations identified with greater accuracy thereby reducing this time to minutes.
Modern MEOSAR Beacons can take the 'search' out of search and rescue, and the MEOSAR system can dramatically increase the global search and rescue capability. If you travel further offshore, emergency distress beacons (EPIRBS or PLB's) are key equipment for anyone operating at sea.
The MEOSAR system offers:
- Near instantaneous global coverage with accurate independent location capability,
- Robust beacon to satellite communication links, high levels of satellite redundancy and availability,
- Resilience against beacon to satellite obstructions, and
- The provision for additional (enhanced) SAR services, such as a ground to beacon return link.
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Norwalk Cove Summer Contracts are in the Mail!!
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Norwalk Cove Rigging Department
Now is the time to plan for  the spring! Do you need to replace your rigging, reefing lines or halyards? Maybe your lifelines?
Check out those rusty turnbuckles and chainplates, dingy lifts, boom lifts and turning blocks.
Call the Norwalk Cove Service Department to discuss with the Rigging Shop. Call (203) 838-3681
or e-mail service@norwalkcove.com
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Reef Balls Can Save the Shoreline
A Sacred Heart biology professor, Jennifer Mattei, has been instrumental in introducing "Reef Balls" into Long Island Sound waters off Stratford.
The dome shaped, thousand pound  cement balls are placed to create an artificial reef and can not only stop, but reverse, erosion. Each ball is cast with holes that allow the tide and small sea creatures through, making protective void spaces for fish and include features such as with rough surface textures to enhance coral settlement or oyster attachment.
After creating the Stratford barrier, her group won a $115,198 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Long Island Sound Futures Fund that will be used next summer, with the aid of a team of Sacred Heart students, to plant thousands of marsh grass plugs along the shoreline in front of the barrier.
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On a Final Note,
Have a peaceful winter, see you in the Spring!
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