1. Governance of Arctic Search and Rescue

2. Search and Rescue (SAR) “Search and Rescue comprises the search for, and the provision of aid to, persons, ships or other craft which are, or are feared to be, in distress or imminent danger” * Canadian Coast Guard, 2014

3. Hazards in a thawing North * Increase in maritime traffic * Poorly charted seas * “Growlers” – small, low lying pieces of hard, multiyear ice can easily tear through a ship’s hull * Severe and unpredictable weather grows worse every year http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/is-the-search-and-rescue-treaty-a-model-for-arctic-co-operation- 1.1051027

4. Canada’s Three Search and Rescue Regions, and their areas of responsibility, coordinated by Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centres in VictoriaTrentonHalifax

5. Search and Rescue in Canada http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/archive-nss-qdrnnl-rvw/index-en.aspx

6. Cooperative Search and Rescue Exercise in Greenland, 2013 http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/en/news-template-standard.page?doc=arctic-search-and-rescue-exercise- greenland-sea-13/hleu6ruj

7. International Conventions and Agreements * 1914 – International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) * 1944 – Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention) * 1979 – International Convention on Search and Rescue (SAR Convention) * 1982 – United Nations Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) * 2011 – Agreement on Cooperation on Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue in the Arctic (Arctic SAR Agreement)

8. Why is it working?

9. * Logistics * Political Climate * Culture * Politics (International and Domestic)