2025 Port of Virginia Search and Rescue Forum

Trip dates: 
Monday, February 24, 2025 to Friday, March 28, 2025
Trip length: 
5 days
Type of watercraft: 
Power
  • Maryland Pilot boat
  • Boom training
  • Saw this osprey perched on Blackbeards ship
  • Flare demo
  • Getting underway for night ops
  • Osprey was back again this night
  • Looking for the Jane McAllister
  • Night ops
  • Transfering the Captain to the 45'
  • Helo demo out of CG Air Station Elizabeth City
  • The fleet, had over 40 vessels this year
  • Transfering the victims of the plane crash
  • On the Jane McAllister
  • Victims pulled from the water

Another SAR Forum down.    Changed it up a little this year.    Instead of attending as a participant, I was staff.    I was the safety officer for the forum.    Got to see the forum from a different perspective and was able to ride on other agencies vessels as well as Maryland Pilots and several tugs, including Hampton Roads newest tractor tug.    Looking forward to participating as staff in 2026.