Prior to this project SAR efforts had been hampered by the size of Great Slave Lake and by the inability to communicate between vessels that were more than 30 miles apart (the lake is 28,568 square km in area).
Avant ce projet, la grande taille du Grand lac des Esclaves et l’incapacité de communiquer entre les navires éloignés de plus de 30 miles (le lac a une superficie de 28 568 km2) venaient entraver les efforts de recherche et de sauvetage.