PROTECTION FROM MANMADE THREATS

Think of safety like layers of an onion with the Owner, guests and crew protected in the center. As criminals advance they encounter resistance on multiple, ever increasing levels. From the moment intruders enter an established perimeter; systems identify, record, and then discourage any encroachment. For more potent threats, hardened yachts make it difficult, if not impossible to board and/or penetrate. The next level of protection incorporates Safe Cores, the ultimate components in neutralizing even the most formidable threat. Safe Cores typically encompass broad living areas, allowing the Owner, guests and crew to move freely in their natural environment, safe from the threat with the Owner in complete control of the situation. These Cores are architecturally invisible yet impenetrable, providing protection from both natural and manmade threats.

The Initial/Detection Layer

As the threat approaches it triggers a response, which provides detection, documentation and deterrence.

This layer typically encompasses a 100 feet to ten mile perimeter around the yacht. Systems see approaching vessels and/or navigational hazards and weather anomalies. As the event is being detected it is simultaneously being documented and relayed to the Captain and crew, and the Owner if he desires; globally if the Owner is not on the vessel.

In the case of an approaching vessel it is notified and instructed to alter its course. Depending upon the response, appropriate action can be taken by the protected yacht to discourage any further approach.

The Second/Approach Layer

If a vessel enters the mid/pre-boarding perimeter of 100 feet the threat becomes imminent.

While the approaching vessel continues to be documented, notified and instructed to alter its course, the security system shifts from detection to tactical.

Recent technological advancements in all levels of tactical response provide the protected yacht the ability to respond appropriately to the level of threat being presented.

The Third/Boarding Layer

If the Owner chooses not to respond to the threat in advance, or even a guest becoming a threat, the danger becomes critical.

At that moment the Owner, guests and crew can, and must, be isolated in their Safe Cores. Typically these Cores are ballistically fortified staterooms with Command Center features capable of providing long and near-range communications, surveillance and appropriate tactical responses.

The Fourth/Final Layer

In the unlikely event the intruders, after being notified of the dangerous position in which they have placed themselves, choose not to immediately leave the yacht, the Owner can take the appropriate action to neutralize the threat from the safety and comfort of the Master Stateroom. One solution is the MANTRAP in which intruders can be contained and controlled until help arrives or the yacht makes its way to the authorities. Other, more aggressive solutions are available.