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Under contract with Coastal Visions for offshore operations.
Coastal Visions International - Maritime Armed
Security
Coastal Visions International has an experienced team
of 'hands on' consultants with significant
international maritime experience that caters to both
Government & Commercial sectors.
They have a thorough knowledge of the requirements and
implications of the International Maritime
Organisation (IMO) legislation that is being
strengthened to mitigate the risks to ports and
shipping.
We have a definitive understanding of International
port facility operators to prepare for compliance with
the mandatory provisions of the new International Ship
and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS) and the
enhanced provisions of the International Convention
for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), as well as
develop thorough security and crisis management
procedures.
Coastal Visions International's portfolio of maritime
security services includes:
Strategic Assessment and Advice
* Port and facility threat assessment
* Supply chain assessment and security
* Crisis management planning and implementation
* Worldwide investigations and due diligence
Maritime Security Surveys and Implementation
* Port and terminal security
* Cargo and cruise ship security
* Offshore security
* Compliance with international security codes
* ISPS Code
* MTSA 2002
* C-TPAT
Clearance Diving
* Vessels at Anchor
* Hull Integrity Inspections of IED's
* Port Facilities Inspections
Patrol Boat Perimeter Security
* Vessels at Anchor
* Docked Vessels
* Port Facilities
Anti Piracy Operations
With Piracy on the high seas difficult to counter,
Coastal Visions International have in place a variety
of services to ensure that your cargo and your vessel,
commercial or private, arrives at its assigned
destination. These include;
* Armed Security Teams
* Random Armed Escorts
* Anti-Piracy training for crew
* Covert Armed Security Teams
* 24 hour Operations Room for Ship Security Alert
System monitoring
* Evacuation planning and response
Investigations & Surveillance
In today's complex business dealings, knowing where
people, vehicles, vessels and aircraft are going, what
they do when they arrive, and with whom contacts are
made… may give you the competitive edge - for many
different reasons. This is an intellectual exercise in
allowing you to assess the facts.
Discover - do not have to recover from the damage an
adversary can cause.
Investigative and Surveillance skills are hard
acquired. As are good operatives who know how to
navigate to the required objective. These are the
operatives engaged by Coastal Visions International.
On the corporate front, employee theft and insurance
fraud is in epidemic proportions costing billions of
dollars each year. Domestically, it is valuable
information that often results in a positive outcome
when matters are before a court.
Equally important is the equipment used to catch
offenders out. Coastal visions International have an
array of sophisticated state of the art equipment and
technical devices. Coastal Visions International
utilises a cross-section of male and female operatives
that can blend into any situation. These individuals
have the training and expertise to execute any
operation necessary to accomplish your objectives.
Our agency has investigators and surveillance
operatives with varying qualifications and, in all
instances… definitive experience. This enables us, if
the need arises, to place operatives in any
environment that will allow them to acquire positive
results in any investigation.
Supplementing each team member's professional skills
is a comprehensive intelligence network that assists
our operatives in getting the best results possible.
No matter what your objective is, Coastal Visions
International will gather you the intelligence and get
the desired result.
Coastal Visions International conducts factual
investigations and enquiries into all matters. We are
discreet and thorough. We operate with the total
confidentiality, which is essential to our clients. We
initiate innovative and legally admissible ways of
cracking the most difficult of cases.
Special Operations
Coastal Visions International has on call a team of
rapid reaction personnel to assess and conduct all
special operations. These operatives are highly
trained professionals with specialised skills and
years of experience and expertise in complex national
and international operations by, sea, air or land.
All members of this team acquired high level
government security clearances during their previous
service and have impeccable references. Tactical
planning, information analysis and complex
investigations are overseen by former government
intelligence officers, when required. As is cross
consultation between operational personnel.
Crisis Management & Response
A crisis can be defined as any unplanned event,
occurrence or sequence of events that has a specific
undesirable consequence. In a rapidly deteriorating
situation Coastal Visions International can offer
definitive preventative and response solutions.
Natural disasters, financial manipulation, societal
disruption, pollution and stringent regulations are
but a few examples of potential crisis situations. The
reasons for focusing on these issues may result from a
commitment to protect the public, your employees, to
comply with government regulations or to protect your
firm from possible liabilities and litigation. The
consequences for not focusing on these issues can be
disastrous.
So, what exactly do you do in a crisis?
Call Coastal Visions International, time is the
crucial factor here - the sooner you get professional
assistance, the better your chances of avoiding long
term ramifications.
What does Coastal Visions International do in a
crisis?
Each crisis is unique. Coastal Visions International
work with you to determine the specific requirements
of your situation. In any event, before, during or
after a crisis, Coastal Visions International will
provide solutions that assist your organization in
resolving crisis situations
Travel Risk Management
In an ever changing world traveller's face a wide
range of threats once they arrive at their
destinations. Political instability, civil unrest,
dangerous neighbourhoods, health emergencies and
military conflicts.
Coastal Visions International offer a comprehensive
range of services that securer's today's traveller and
or greatly reduces the risk of violence and
confrontation whilst abroad or interstate.
Our professional risk managers formulate itinerary
specific intelligence reports based on your impending
destinations.
If you're travelling to high-risk locations Coastal
Visions International can provide you with location
avoidance training or a personalised security escort
to ensure your safety.
Coastal Visions International offers:
* 24-Hour Contact
* Destination Intelligence
* Defensive Training
* Risk Assessment & Consulting
* Personal Protection
Kidnap & Ransom
Around the world individuals and employees of global
organizations and other businesses, must now concern
themselves with the realistic possibility that
themselves or their family members could become the
target of criminal organizations operating strictly
for profit.
From terrorist groups with radical "political"
agendas, to disgruntled employees seeking to redress
grievances, corporate executives and employees of
multi national companies are increasingly being
subjected to kidnap and ransom.
Coastal Visions International's consultants have
considerable experience in dealing with kidnap, ransom
and extortion cases, particularly within Far East
Asia . Our advisors ensure that the client is guided
through every stage of the negotiation process through
to resolution.
Coastal Visions International's advisors will ensure
that the client are able to evaluate the information
presented throughout the crisis and assist the client
in making sound decisions under difficult
circumstances.
Coastal Visions International can facilitate and
initiate crisis management in the event that an
employee or family member is the subject of a kidnap
for ransom. In such a crisis, Counter Terrorism
International can:
* Implement guidelines and standard operating
procedures to minimize the likelihood of an
occurrence;
* Manage delicate negotiations, handling the
media, and the various branches of the legal system to
assure the most favourable outcome.
* In extreme circumstances, Coastal Visions
International can facilitate rescue utilising special
operations personnel. Our role is to provide a
positive outcome to hazardous and stressful
situations.
* In the event of a kidnap, Coastal Visions
International will deploy a member of its team of
experienced consultants to the client anywhere in the
world within 24 hours of notification of an incident.
Using proven methodologies the consultant will
evaluate the circumstances, advise on possible
options, explain the likely sequence of events and
remain on site in order to:
Advise on effective negotiation strategies:
coherent negotiating strategies are essential if the
kidnap is to be successfully resolved. Our consultants
have extensive experience of advising on the most
appropriate response to kidnappers' threats, demands
and tactics.
Advise on the management of the agendas of all
interested parties: In any kidnap, there are many
different and often competing groups with an interest:
the victim, family and friends, employers, the media,
governments, and law enforcement agencies.
Our consultant provides the client with sound
objective advice on how to manage the various
interests within legal constraints, in a manner which
supports the client's aim – the safe, secure and
timely release of the victim. We help to bring order
and a decision making structure to what is frequently
a stressful and emotionally–charged situation.
Coastal Visions International provide personal
security briefings for executives and other employees
when there is an increased level of threat to a
client's family or company.
Personal security briefings should be considered when:
* employees are relocating to another town or
country
* there is change to business operating procedures
* implementing redundancy measures or plant
closures
* making executive's travel arrangements
* opening new overseas operations
When travelling abroad, Coastal Visions International
professional consultants will thoroughly brief you on
the customs of the destination country. Our personal
security briefings are tailored to suit your needs.
Our security consultants frequently travel to high
risk destinations and are well-placed to advise on the
current security situation and how to stay safe
abroad.
Close Personal Protection
When it comes to Close Personal Protection any number
of companies and individuals will tell you… "There the
best". It's an industry predominately occupied by
grossly inexperienced operators and in a given
situation at the wrong time and place… It could cost
you your life.
Don't compromise your personal safety. Coastal Visions
International Executive Protection Teams are well
experienced in the fields of Counter-Terrorism and
Personal Protection.
We offer a variety of close protection services to
ensure the personal security of individuals, senior
executives, dignitaries and members of government.
Our range of close protection services includes but is
not limited to:
* Detailed physical security assessment of the
individual's residence, work place and idiosyncratic
habits - including access control, document security,
mail handling, telephone answering, car parking,
emergency response procedures, etc
* Organising and implementing arrival and
departure procedures, and security procedures for
public occasions
* A review of travel arrangements and response
procedures in times of security crisis. Supervising
international and domestic travel arrangements
* Searching vehicles and buildings
* Preparing emergency drills
* Liaising with local authorities (as and when
required)
* Providing definitive high risk personal
protection to persons at risk
Armed Services
Coastal Visions International provides cash-in-transit
services eliminate the risk to your staff of
transporting cash. Rest easy in knowing that our
personnel are highly experienced in the use and
carriage of firearms and dealing with complicated
situations, which may arise.
It allows senior staff to focus on the key elements of
their job, rather than be involved in the stressful
task of moving cash - a task for which they often have
no special training or equipment.
The nature of Coastal Visions International's cash
transportation business necessitates well established
procedures for handling incidents. In all instances
our armed Plain Clothed or Uniformed officers exercise
absolute discretion whilst reducing your risk and
liability.
Litigation Support
The United States is fast becoming one of the most
litigious countries in the world. With people seeking
civil and criminal compensation or defending against a
civil or criminal proceeding, you will need the
expertise of Coastal Visions International to build a
case or present a solid defence.
Coastal Visions International utilise experienced
investigators and forensic specialists to gather the
intelligence, recreate the event, and locate and
interview the witnesses.
Law firms and corporate counsels rely on Coastal
Visions International to provide information and
intelligence at various stages of a litigation,
arbitration or trial preparation process.
Law firms and corporations rely on Coastal Visions
International from the onset of a potential lawsuit to
obtain the advantage in fact gathering before a
complaint is served or evidence begins to dissipate.
Coastal Visions International also locates missing or
reluctant witnesses and identifies unknown witnesses.
Call on Coastal Visions International, litigation
support services to:
* Gather intelligence
* Conduct Factual Investigations
* Analyse, review and safeguard pertinent
documents and evidence
* Locate and interview witnesses
* Prepare exhibits, photographs and graphic
presentations
* Provide expert testimony
* Check background of outside experts
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The Florida Keys are one of the most difficult places in the United States to navigate a vessel through, even the most experienced Captains ground their vessels in the Florida Keys. The Florida Keys hold the only living coral reef in the continental United States.

Vessel accidents can damage the coral reefs, from things such as physical impacts from vessel grounding, anchor damage. Coral reefs & Sea grass beds are very sensitive to physical disturbance from vessel groundings. In the event that a vessel is grounded, responders must take care to avoid doing any more physical damage to coral and or sea grass, especially in the shallow water.

Salvage vessels that arrive to free the grounded vessel needs to prevent addition damage by using floating lines for towing operations, carefully deploying anchors, and removing the vessel using the same pathway that it created when it hit the reef or sea grass bed.

In the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary alone, roughly 600 known vessels groundings occur each year in coral reefs ecosystems. So the fact remains, that almost all boaters from the United States do not have the navigational skills to navigate the shallow waters of the Florida Keys. If you hit a reef or sea grass bed as approximately 600 people reportedly each year do. Costly fines are placed on the owner and or the loss of their vessel for damage done to the reef or sea grass, The owner can be fined up to 100,000 a day for being grounded in the Florida Keys.

Towing & Salvage Companies are referred to as "Pirates" in the Florida Keys because of so many years they have taken advantage of unskilled boaters running aground on the reefs and in the sanctuaries . This is the last known act of Piracy left in the United States.

The Towing company often is claiming salvage when in fact it is a SIMPLE TOW. A SIMPLE TOW, is defined as a line is tied off to their cleat of the vessel that is in distress, or the Towing company would tie it off and a pull off the reef in the way the boat impacted the reef or sea grass.

There are more non members of towing insurance, then there are members of Towing & Salvage insurance such as SEATOW & TOWBOATUS. Most acts of overcharging for a Tow or Salvage is mainly committed against people without insurance. Over charging for a salvage has been into the "thousands of dollar" on unskilled boaters navigating the coral reef in the Keys.

To the person that DOES NOT have boaters insurance will pay this cost out of pocket or a lien is put against the title of his vessel and is awarded to the Towing company. And that is why Towing Companies in the Keys are called pirates.

In most cases the boat owner pays all damages, even if the towing company has done some or most of the damage because of lack of evidence on the part of the owner in court.

This happen more than you would think, and when it comes to a vessel that is sinking, time is extremely crucial. That is why we at Coastal Visions International Inc. have divers equipped with underwater cameras, if filming is needed underwater we have a dive team that has the skills for cave,wreck penetration and deep water to be able to work in depths of 400ft.

Unfortunately most boating accidents that result in a death as the boat(s) go down. Most evidence is taken out to sea and lost forever, that's why time is the utmost importance on the water, to get evidence and footage before it's lost in ever changing condition. "The Ocean"

Winds and tides will change any evidence quickly, when the boat is re-floated as water is being pulled out by
large pumps, vital evidence is being destroyed. So filming is needed to start off underwater before any salvage has started.

If the owner of the vessel needed to prove SIMPLE TOW compare to what the Towing Company is claiming SALVAGE, all he would need is the video of the tow/salvage.

During March 2007 a local towing company claimed salvage on a simple tow, The Captain stated that he bumped his props on a soft bottom in the beginning of the pull, even though no damage was done, the Towing Company claimed salvage and the boaters insurance company paid over $4,000.00 dollars for the simple tow.

This is an old salvage trick, The tow company pull off fast to raise the bow and drop the props, then claims that their tow boat was in peril... Even though the Captain put his own tow boat in peril, it is all he needs to do to change a simple tow to a salvage.

With video of the salvage, it will show how the captain of the tow boat is doing the pull, and if the captain of the tow boat is at fault of putting his own vessel in peril to claim salvage on a simple tow, if the owner had video of this tow/salvage, he would have saved over 3,000.00 dollars

Coastal Visions International has the knowledge and skills to protect the owners rights and to collect evidence that will be needed for court and investigators & experts to testify in court on the owners behalf if needed.

The vessel owner can rely on Coastal Visions International from the onset of a potential lawsuit to obtain the advantage in fact gathering before a complaint is served or evidence begins to dissipate.

Having our vessels set up with camera's and underwater cameras, computers linked to satellite Internet connections on our vessels. We are able to upload any footage of "News Worthy" events in a matter of minutes to Local & International Media that is taken place on the water, with the same response time of the U.S.Coast Guard.


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