The Canadian Coast Guard and several partner agencies also sharpening their skills this week.
A full-scale nuclear emergency exercise is taking place over two days at Point Lepreau.
The Coast Guard exercise involves a lot of vessels on the Passamaquoddy Bay between Deer Island and Campobello Island but will be visible in Saint Andrews, L’Etete and Eastport, Maine.
We are staging a major #SearchAndRescue and Environmental Response exercise in Passamaquoddy Bay, #NewBrunswick tomorrow and Thursday! The SAREX will involve a mass casualty exercise with partners from both Canada and the United States. pic.twitter.com/vnkEARiCai
— Canadian Coast Guard (@CoastGuardCAN) October 2, 2018
John Drake is a search and rescue preparedness officer with the Canadian Coast Guard and he describes the event as a multi-agency mass casualty exercise.
He tells us the scene coordinator is the icebreaker, Sir William Alexander and the lifeboat, Courtenay Bay from Saint John.
“The US Coast Guard station Eastport is playing in the exercise, New Brunswick ground search and rescue, RCMP, Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the trunk mobile radio system techs from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are providing assistance with communications,” Drake says.
Drake says it wasn’t planned that the NB Power exercise would be happening on the same days adding they are in touch with the leads on that making sure they are aware of each other and any crossover can be quickly resolved.
