page_title: Special Rescue Team
section_title: Organisation
hierarchical_section_title: Special Rescue Team / Organisation
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 横須賀市大津湾海上で行われた訓練において、横須賀海上保安部所属の巡視艇「すがなみ」の上空でホバリングする羽田航空基地所属のヘリコプターから降下する特殊救難隊員。
context_page_description: The Special Rescue Team
  is the elite search and rescue unit of the Japan Coast Guard. The team was established to respond to special maritime accidents and disasters.
context_section_description: The Special Rescue Team is located in the Haneda Special Rescue Station, within the Haneda Air Station of the 3rd Regional Coast Guard Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. The SRT currently consists of a Commander, Deputy Commander, 3 members of staff and 36 SRT members operating in 6 teams. Members of the SRT are recruited from the best performing rescue divers in competitive meets conducted by the various regional coast guard commands.
  Although the Special Rescue Team is located at the 3rd Regional Coast Guard Headquarters, its area of operations spans the whole of Japan's waters. The team can be deployed for search and rescue operations by aircraft or helicopter anywhere across the country, as requested by the local regional coast guard commands. Command authority of a rescue operation is normally transferred from the local coast guard command to the SRT upon arrival. The team's quick-response capability is provided by helicopter and aircraft located at the Haneda Air Station. The team operates two AS332L1 Super Puma helicopters and two Gulfstream V light jets for emergency response.
  In the event of a large-scale disaster overseas, the SRT may also be deployed as part of an urgent international rescue task force. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's R110 and Tokyo Fire Department's Hyper Rescue are the other elite rescue teams which may form such a task force alongside the Japan Coast Guard's Special Rescue Team.
  Since establishment in October 1975 up till February 2002, the SRT had been activated in a total of 2,341 sorties.
  The latest use of the SRT's skills was to carry out the search for people during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Large numbers of the team worked near and in the Fukushima nuclear power plant . The team worked with large numbers of specialist rescue teams due to the severity of the disaster.
caption: A SRT officer abseiling from AS332L1 during exercise.
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