Expert opinion

The experiences of the Coco’s crew raise some interesting points. Firstly, most of the Caribbean islands are extremely limited in terms of search and rescue resources. They have vessels of limited size and range, sometimes less than 20 miles from their shoreline.

International conventions dictate which nations have responsibility for which sea areas. Somewhere such as Australia, for example, has responsibility several thousand miles from its coastline to the south, while other nations have significantly