On Predicting the Leeway and Drift of a Survival Suit Clad Person-in-water

Résumé du livre

Search for and rescue of persons in distress on the high seas requires the capability to accurately predict the position of the survivors. The current approach used by the U.S. Coast Guard to predict leeway drift is based on an empirical correlation between wind speed and search object motion derived from available field data. Prior to this study, no drift data were available for persons wearing survival suits which are widely used in distress situations.