Most rescues at sea do not begin with a lifeboat. They begin with whoever was closest: a passing boater, a fisherman, a person on a beach with a handheld radio. This simulation is for that person — the lone, informal or non-professional responder who ends up running a scene because nobody else is there to run it.
It is deliberately simple. There is no drift calculation, no coverage factor, no probability of detection. There is a radio, a notebook, a plan view of the water in front of you, and a series of decisions taken under time pressure — the same decisions that decide whether two people come home.
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Training use and limitations
This is an awareness and discussion tool, not a qualification and not operational guidance. It reflects widely accepted good practice for assisting vessels — obligation to assist, Mayday relay, on-scene coordination by the first competent vessel on scene, cold-water recovery and accounting for persons — but your own national regulations, radio procedures and safety rules take precedence in every case. If you may respond to emergencies, get proper training in first aid, cold-water rescue and marine radio.