Full Recovery

摘要

The growing role of lightweight deployable craft, particularly rigid inflatable boats (RIB), in maritime defense arsenals has brought with it evolving technologies and concepts to ensure they are safely, and quickly, put to sea and returned uneventfully to the mother ship. In what had all the flavor of a NATO technical summit, the American Society of Naval Engineers' (ASNE) Virtual Launch & Recovery symposium remotely mustered nautical engineers and other experts from international government and private sectors in mid-July to examine the intricacies of launch and recovery systems (LARS). Owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, the symposium's 15th version - and first one held virtually - replaced the biennial Multi-Agency Craft Conference (MACC), which will be held belatedly next summer at the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore.