AMVER-AUTOMATED MERCHANT VESSEL REPORTS

Duration: 14 min

Year Published: 1965

Creator: United States Coast Guard (Department of Transportation)

Color: Color

Sound: Optical sound

Description: Provides a graphic fast-moving description of the Amver system and how it works as an aid to the development and co-ordination of search and rescue efforts at sea. The system is shown in action as its electronic computer furnishes positions and medical capability information of nearby merchant vessels in three distress cases-two different ships and one aircraft.