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the rescue coordination center

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started receiving distress signals the

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bridge was starting to fill up with

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water

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the ship was sinking and got them out

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on top of the rescue boat

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winds up to 60 70 knots we started to

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separate one by one

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wave height 50 to 60 feet

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i was finally i was alone and no rescue

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boat or nothing the rescue boat drifted

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away

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it's freezing out there

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all i had to do was just

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waiting hope

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some kind of miracle would happen

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there is almost no chance to survive

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ais

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the automatic identification system

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all ships out on the open oceans

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are obliged to transmit their position

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and their identity and their

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directional speed heading and speed etc

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it's kind of like air traffic control

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for the sea

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it's very useful to

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help provide assistance to ships in

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distress

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first of all to see do we have assets

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in the area

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that could help somebody in distress

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in in the days before ais

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we didn't even know if there were any

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vessels in a particular area where we

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have an incident

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they were more or less invisible to

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the coastal traffic administration

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but as of today if we have an incident

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out in open water

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we have the chance to see what vessels

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are in the area and could contact them

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directly to route them to the

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position or the distress

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and in in that way in a more effective

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way

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rescue more people within a shorter time

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frame that we ever have before

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ais receiving stations along the coast

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they can only look a certain distance

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out into the sea ships that go out

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beyond 75 kilometers outside the coast

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were over the horizon and invisible to

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us but if you think about these signals

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going straight they go maybe several

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hundred kilometers out into space

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and you know what circles around the

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earth about 400 kilometers above us

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international space station

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the european space agency contacted the

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norwegian defense research establishment

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and gave them the opportunity to mount

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an ais receiver on board the space

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station to test out this technology from

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space all our calculations indicated

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that this should work

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but we really did not know before we

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switched on the receiver on the space

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station

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first of june 2010 the system was turned

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on

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the switch was flipped and

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the light came on and we were actually

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able to get the first data in yes the

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instrument works we all got very excited

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and and suddenly we could see

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a whole world full of ship data it was

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it was i would say a quantum leap really

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in our ability to to look at global ship

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traffic it's like a blind man starting

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to see

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yeah it was a huge relief and great

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satisfaction to see

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so this brought a whole new dimension to

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the monitoring of ship traffic on the

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open oceans

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nobody knew how many ships really are

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out there at any given time and

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suddenly we had if not the complete

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picture than almost a complete picture

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on a typical day the space station is

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observing about 30 000 ships out on the

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open ocean

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i was kind of overwhelmed i guess by the

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response that's got the space station

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really is an excellent lab for

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testing this type of technology

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this project demonstrates that the

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international space station is not just

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for science and astronauts

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but it really benefits the whole mankind

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based on the ais

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we had another

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vessels in the area that we contacted

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who continued to the area and they

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searched together with the helicopters

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nobody expected to find anybody

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surviving in that conditions they

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actually spotted one man in the sea

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after floating in the north atlantic

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ocean for four hours

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i was finally rescued thanks to

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ais data and ais data from the space

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station this lone survivor was rescued a

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absolutely

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happy ending for him

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and luckily for technology that made

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something that was basically impossible

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to survive