Maritime Boarding Alert Device (MBAD®)

MBAD® is the acronym for Trident Group’s, US Patented, maritime force protection (FP) offering.  It stands for “Maritime Boarding Alert Device”.   MBAD supplies something that other FP products do not…An early warning system that has both repelling components (Counter Piracy) and alerting components (Anti Piracy) which works BEFORE intruders are on board a vessel.

Most other systems are designed to activate once the intruder is over the rail of the vessel, which, means the crew is already playing catch up to Force Protection and is in real trouble.  Once an intruder is on board, you are faced with a completely different scenario of which compliance by the crew is the only real response if your hope is for crew survival.

The majority of successfully averted acts of piracy result from the vessel being aware that they are being targeted.  Currently, this awareness requires greater attention to radars, increased deck watches, and possibly embarked security teams.  The need for increased focus on possible boarders is a burden to crews and vessel operations.  MBAD does not require an additional manpower load at all.  Once the system is installed, it will immediately alert the Bridge, and other Key Crew Members, that climbers are about to board your vessel.  Simultaneously, as MBAD alerts the ship, it sends out a repelling medium that will drive all but the most determined and prepared climbers away from your vessel.

Once MBAD alerts the bridge that there are climbers at the waterline, immediate implementation of vessel Anti-piracy SOP’s can be undertaken by the crew.  This immediate response will be crucial to repelling unauthorized boarders.  Simultaneously, the repelling components of MBAD will drive away the climbers AND other supporting vessels.

Finally, once the subtle configuration of MBAD begins to be recognized by pirates, this will, in itself, become a deterrent to piracy.

The system is simple, durable, effective, and is free from complicated software and expensive components.  MBAD works while underway, at anchor, or pierside and is fitted specifically PER SHIP.  Because of this property, MBAD is the perfect Force Protection system for vessels of almost any size or shape.

For more information about MBAD, please contact:

Tom Rothrauff
President, Trident Group Inc
tbr@gotridentgroup.com
 (757) 479-4422