Author: Courtney Livingston
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Let’s Crash Some Boats…for Science?
If someone casually mentions that a team is intentionally crashing boats this spring, it seems fair to pause. But in this case, that pause will (hopefully) quickly turn into understanding. This May, a multidisciplinary team of investigators, trainers, and technical partners will gather in Nashville to do something that looks chaotic from the outside but…
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Five Questions Every Maritime Operational Leader Should Ask Their Port Partners
Maritime operations generally won’t fail because nobody responds. But they can fail when the people who respond arrive with different assumptions…assumptions about who’s in charge, what “ready” actually means, and how tasks are expected to be executed when time is short and the operating picture is incomplete. Anyone who has worked a real multi-agency maritime…
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One Standard, One Team: Maritime Interoperability Isn’t Optional
The maritime domain is unforgiving in one particular way: when something goes wrong, it rarely stays contained. A vessel casualty becomes a search.A search becomes a multi-agency operation.A localized incident becomes a regional (or even national) problem. And when that escalation happens, success depends less on who arrived first and more on whether everyone who…
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Assessing Your Own Risk (Because Readiness Starts with You)
You know those things your mom always said to you growing up that seemed annoying at the time but are suddenly impossible to argue with as the years go on? The list is long, I’m sure. One thing my mom always told me was that if you don’t feel good, you’re good to no one.…
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