The exploration of search and rescue status and solutions for ships in Arctic area

With the growth of the shipping activity in Arctic area, ship incidents and accidents are increasingly more. Consequently, emergency response and search and rescue (S&R)becomes a great challenge for ships and the countries around, especially under the polar conditions. In the essay, the natural factors and policy factors,such as international treaty and agreement, influencing the S&R, are both analyzed. The technical research and development, as well as with S&R arrangement in the main arctic countries are summarized in the following part, which plays a basic and significant role to understand the status of arctic emergency response and search and rescue. Typical accidents are studied and the importance of the self-rescue is showed. As concluded in the end, search and rescue solutions(respectively rescue equipment, rescue mother ships, rescue bases, rescue platforms) are promoted based on the study.