{"id":21347,"date":"2024-03-08T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21347"},"modified":"2025-04-06T11:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T06:07:29","slug":"sea-defenders-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sea-defenders-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Defenders 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Sea Defenders-2024<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0joint exercise between the\u00a0Indian Coast Guard and the United States Coast Guard.<\/li>\n<li>Location:\u00a0Off the coast of Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0two-day exercise will\u00a0focus on maritime piracy and asymmetric threats, including simulated drone attacks on commercial merchant traffic, joint maritime search and rescue operations, major firefighting, marine pollution response, and counter-drug interdiction exercises.<\/li>\n<li>The event will also\u00a0witness a simulated medical evacuation to enhance readiness in emergency situations.<\/li>\n<li>It will highlight the importance of international cooperation in addressing maritime challenges as well as the partnership between the Indian and US Coast Guards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about Indian Coast Guard (ICG)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an\u00a0armed force that\u00a0protects India&#8217;s maritime interests and\u00a0enforces maritime law, with\u00a0jurisdiction over the territorial waters of India, including its contiguous zone and exclusive economic zone.<\/li>\n<li>The ICG,\u00a0working in coordination with other Union agencies, institutions, and authorities, safeguards the maritime interests and security of India,\u00a0assists vessels\u00a0and fisherman in distress, and\u00a0protects the maritime environment.<\/li>\n<li>History: It was\u00a0formally established in 1978\u00a0by the Coast Guard Act, 1978, as an\u00a0independent Armed force of India.<\/li>\n<li>Parent ministry: It operates under the\u00a0Ministry of Defence.<\/li>\n<li>Administration: The organization is\u00a0headed by the Director General Indian Coast Guard (DGICG).<\/li>\n<li>HQ: New Delhi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Territorial Waters?<\/h3>\n<p>Territorial waters, under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), is that area of the sea immediately adjacent to the shores of a country and subject to the territorial jurisdiction of that country. The territorial sea extends to a limit of 12 nautical miles from the baseline of a country\u2019s coast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/amp\/india\/story\/us-coast-guard-ship-bertholf-arrives-in-port-blair-ahead-if-joint-exercise-2512035-2024-03-07\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>US Coast Guard ship Bertholf arrives in Port Blair ahead of joint exercise<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea Defenders-2024 is a joint exercise between the Indian Coast Guard and the United States Coast Guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}