Maritime Incident Recovery Control Hub
Describes a platform/system that serves as a central control hub for:
- Collecting information about maritime incidents
- Coordinating emergency response teams
- Real-time situation monitoring
- Managing recovery and restoration processes
- Documentation, lessons learned, and process improvement
A central HUB that consolidates all operational activity following a maritime event — from initial detection and response through full return to normal operations.
- Operational expertise in the maritime domain
- Methodological knowledge in emergency management
- Risk management knowledge
- Knowledge of control: system technologies
- Decision-making under pressure
- Emotional and cognitive regulation
- Clear inter. agency communication
- Systems thinking
- Ability to organize large volumes of incoming information simultaneously
- Leadership under uncertainty
- Basic documentation and regulatory skills
- Make accurate and rapid decisions under pressure
- Prioritize critical actions as operational load increases
- Maintain synchronization between different units
- Prevent errors arising from emotional overwhelm
- Ensure immediate damage mitigation (spill, personnel harm, risk of escalation)
- Preserve a simple and clear high-level operational picture
- Stabilize the situation before delving into details
- Use the system as a “cognitive anchor” for all other stakeholders
- Receiving an initial situational picture (understand “what is happening” within 10–30 seconds)
- Immediate prioritization of actions (the most critical cognitive focus)
- Inter-agency coordination (the commander serves as the hub between units, ships, and business entities)
- Monitoring incident development (the commander must “sense” changes in the event before they fully occur)
- Making critical decisions (the commander must decide quickly without becoming overwhelmed)
- Real-time risk management (including environmental, economic, reputational, and safety risks)
- Stabilizing the incident
- Event summary and regulatory documentation
- Operational tools
- Cognitive tools (systemic interventions to prevent errors)
- Information-based tools
- Inter-agency communication and coordination tools
priority score (sum)
15
12
13
10
13
15
15
15
15
15
14
10
12
11
13
9
5
11
10
12
12
14
11
15
14
12
12
12
9
15
9
4
10
10
11
8
7
10
11
4
4
3
5
9
15
15
15
15
12
Difficulty
5
2
3
4
3
5
5
5
5
5
5
3
3
2
3
2
1
3
4
4
4
4
4
5
5
4
5
5
5
5
3
1
5
3
5
4
3
5
4
1
1
1
1
3
5
5
5
5
5
Criticalty
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4
5
4
2
3
4
3
3
5
4
5
4
4
5
4
3
5
3
1
4
4
5
3
3
4
5
2
2
1
3
5
5
5
5
5
4
Frequency
5
5
5
1
5
5
5
5
5
5
4
2
4
5
5
3
2
5
2
5
5
5
3
5
5
4
2
3
1
5
3
2
1
3
1
1
1
1
3
1
1
1
1
1
5
5
5
5
3
Task
Receiving an Initial Situational Picture
- Identifying the type of incident (spill/collision / storm / trapped personnel)
- Locating the incident and identifying risk points
- Initial severity assessment
- Identifying nearby units and available resources
- Noise filtering and extraction of essential information
Immediate Action Prioritization
- Setting Priority Levels 1–2–3 (Action Triad)
- Making critical decisions under pressure
- Halting hazardous actions
- Sending immediate commands to field units
Inter-Agency Coordination
- Dispatching instructions to units
- Receiving concise situation reports
- Coordinating between different operational bodies
- Updating risk, regulatory, and insurance stakeholders
- Initiating communication when one of the entities “goes silent.”
Continuous Incident Monitoring
- Tracking the spread of a spill
- Monitoring weather and sea-state changes
- Assessing unit readiness (fuel, personnel, equipment status)
- Detecting early warnings (“approaching escalation”)
- Tracking units that fail to respond on time
Critical Decision-Making
- Approving/rejecting hazardous actions
- Opening/closing shipping lanes
- Activating emergency protocols
- Reinforcing weak points
- Adjusting operational deployment of units
Real-Time Risk Management
- Assessing environmental damage
- Analyzing financial/insurance implications
- Verifying regulatory compliance
- Making legally significant decisions
Incident Stabilization
- Checking completion of key tasks
- Reassessing and readjusting priorities
- Creating operational calm for teams
- Synchronizing entities regarding stabilization status
Event Summary and Documentation
- Writing an incident summary
- Producing reports for regulatory bodies
- Issuing an initial insurance report
- Documenting actions, decisions, and scenarios
Overarching Responsibilities:
- Prioritization
- Decision-making
- Load management
- Maintaining a high-level operational picture
User Scenario:
As the Incident Manager,
I want to identify the event and resolve it as quickly as possible.
Success in my task will be defined by stabilizing the incident and creating operational calm for the teams.
Dashboard screens
Dashboard
Noise Filtering & Critical Info
Operational Command & Coordination Center
Coordination between different operational bodies
Reports
