Florida Keys Area Maritime Security Committee members join forces for Full-Scale Security Exercise
Members of agencies forming the Florida Keys Area Maritime Security Committee completed a full-scale security exercise in the Port of Key West, Thursday. The exercise focused on a simulated a mass rescue operation in coordination with a local passenger ferry. During the exercise, agency members practiced rescue and recovery of people in the water, transport, and care of those who were critically injured, accounting for all brought ashore, verifying security increases at local waterfront facilities, and crisis communications.