Udupi: As in Mangalore harbour the other day (last-week), now 20 Distress Alert Transmitters (DAT)were provided to fishermen free of Cost, to act as “eyes and ears” of Navy and Coastal Guard forces against terrorists or pirates found an Indian legal waters on Karnataka coast, in an interaction programme organized by Karnataka Fisheries and Indian Coast Guards at the Malpe natural harbour near Udupi on Friday.
Mangalore Coast Guard Commandant Rajendra Sapal Singh speaking on the occasion, expressed an opinion that it was essential that fishermen joined their hands with the Coastal Guard Commandant Rajendra Sapal Singh that fishermen joined their hands with the Coastal Guards, to safeguard the state sea belt, in view of Terrorists passing explosives through sea faster than land or air. Strict vigilance was the price of liberty from predators at the borders all the time.
Trafficking in explosives had to be stopped, by “involved” local fishermen, acting as and intelligence network. Singh demonstrated how DAT worked in an emergency. It could be energised 24 hours a day. 123 DAT worked in an emergency. It could be energized 24 hours a day. 123 DATS are now working in Karnataka, 85 of them in 2011, he said.