The Improvement of Search and Rescue in Inland Waterways

In the last twenty years there has been recorded a rise in the number of containers and quantity of liquid and general cargo traffic in inland waterways [4]. Density of traffic of the world inland waterway is significant, particularly because of effectiveness in comparison with other types of transportation. Increasing the quantity of traffic inland waterways is not accompanied by an appropriate development of the existing procedures of search and rescue. Therefore, the search and rescue in the inland waterways are considered as poorly developed. In the maritime traffic International Maritime Organization (IMO) provides equipment such as boats and liferafts. Inland waterways in practice take over such equipment in whole or in part from seagoing vessels. Such equipment is considered to be insufficiently adjusted.