{"id":51618,"date":"2014-12-15T11:20:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T11:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=044b5d1390de28d7280d8a10389b77fd"},"modified":"2014-12-15T11:20:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T11:20:37","slug":"press-release-holyhead-coastguard-operations-centre-joins-national-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=51618","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Holyhead Coastguard Operations Centre joins national network"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Work has been carried out at the search and rescue coordination centre to upgrade the technology and introduce new systems. This means Holyhead <abbr title=\"Coastguard Operations Centre\">CGOC<\/abbr> will be connected to the National Maritime Operations Centre (<abbr title=\"National Maritime Operations Centre\">NMOC<\/abbr>) in Hampshire and other Coastguard stations around the country, which will be able to offer mutual support during busy periods.<\/p>\n<p>From January 2015, Holyhead <abbr title=\"Coastguard Operations Centre\">CGOC<\/abbr> and the new national network will start to take on operations from Liverpool Coastguard.<\/p>\n<p>The changes to Her Majesty\u2019s Coastguard will see the <abbr title=\"National Maritime Operations Centre\">NMOC<\/abbr> and 10 other CGOCs around the UK work together to manage the workload. There will be no reduction in rescue resources. The availability of Coastguard Rescue Teams, lifeboats, rescue helicopters and other rescue units will be unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Clark, Maritime Operations Controller at Holyhead <abbr title=\"Coastguard Operations Centre\">CGOC<\/abbr>, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The way we deliver the coordination of search and rescue operations on our coast and out at sea is changing. But the public won\u2019t notice any difference. If you call 999 and ask for the Coastguard, or issue a mayday broadcast, we will still be here to help you.<\/p>\n<p>The new national Coastguard network will be able to oversee and assist with operations around the whole of the UK. Here at Holyhead <abbr title=\"Coastguard Operations Centre\">CGOC<\/abbr> we\u2019re now part of this network, so we can call upon help from our fellow Coastguards elsewhere in the country, and also in turn help them out if needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It\u2019s vital to remember though that the rescue teams in your community are unaffected. There will still be the same number of lifeboats, Coastguard Rescue Teams, helicopters and other rescue resources.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The new national network is scheduled to be fully operational by the end of 2015.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_1507\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Maritime and Coastguard Agency press office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              023 8032 9401\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holyhead Coastguard Operations Centre (CGOC) is to become part of the new Coastguard national network for the very first time this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}