| Establishing a new Canadian Coast Guard Lifeboat
station is an expensive endeavour. Many criteria must be
considered, such as proximity to maritime activities and
high
incident
areas, physical suitability of port, distance
to ancillary services, and local cost factors. This schematic
shows that some criteria must be satisfied for
a site to be an acceptable candidate solution, such as a
minimum water depth at the wharf (if the water were too shallow the candidate site would be a 'No-Go').
For decision-making, weights
can be applied to the remaining criteria based on their
relative importance.
MARIS was
used to calculate and illustrate measures of
SAR
response characteristics,
as shown in the figure, to help rank the possible port
locations according to average distance from incidents
and the size of the coverage area amongst other things.
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Lifeboat Station Placement
