MARSEC

MARSEC is the North American three-tiered Maritime Security system. It is used by the Bahamas, Canada and United States. United States Coast Guard designed it to easily communicate to the Coast Guard and the maritime industry pre-planned scalable responses for credible threats. Its objective is to provide an assessment of possible terrorist activity within the maritime sectors of transportation, including threats to nautical facilities and vessels falling within the jurisdiction of the United States, the Bahamas and Canada that could be targets of attack.