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Hi Sal, couple thoughts coming from the Aviation & Volunteer SAR world.

1) NTSB absolutely stops making daily briefings on air crashes.  In our world, we’re usually lucky to get 1, may be 2 live press briefings after a major accident from the NTSB before they just start issuing press releases.  Knowing who always does the press briefings, be thankful.  It’s always the board members, and they’re never actually knowledgeable about what they’re speaking on.

2) Unified Command is exactly what ICS requires in this situation. Having participated in several Hurricane responses with Civil Air Patrol, we’ve seen how UC, AC, and IC works and every time, when you’re dealing with as many agencies and moving parts that have different start and end times, UC often becomes much easier for all involved and actually reduces the amount of duplication of work and required coordination between groups. Each part of the unified command has a well defined functional and geographical boundary and each has their own Incident Commander for their portion.  An additional level to designate a single IC over the other ICs simply doesn’t make sense.  Yes, you have multiple salvage entities involved, but each works for a specific group and is working on a specific part of the incident.  Wherever there is overlap, then the respective members of the UC team will coordinate between themselves and not need to involve the other members who aren’t involved.  It’s all part of span of control and that’s what the UC is designed to allow for.  If this was just an accident like Exxon Valdez or Deepwater Horizon where there weren’t additional geographical considerations (i.e. the Bridge), I’d agree on IC being the right way.  The other thing that UC does is allow for much quicker demobilization or separation since some parts of this incident will be ongoing for months while others (like the ship salvage) will be done in probably a couple weeks.  Under single IC, you’re creating a lot of unnecessary overlap of people because they’re now responsible for the whole incident instead of just their one part.  This will become a single IC event soon enough, but for the initial response, UC is the way to go.