Consent first
Nothing works unless a person has registered and set up their own profile. There is no scanning of people who never opted in.
The founder
At sea, being known is part of the safety routine.
On a merchant ship, safety is not a feeling. It is paperwork, drills and lists that are kept current because nobody can improvise them in the middle of the night.
Every person on board is documented before the ship sails: who they are, their medical fitness, and who should be informed if something happens to them. Emergency procedures are rehearsed until they stop needing thought. When an incident occurs, the crew is not searching for a name or a phone number — those answers are already in place.
Sixteen years of that discipline is what Capt. Saraswat brought to VerifyU. Not the technology — the expectation that identification and next of kin are prepared in advance, not assembled in a crisis.
- 01Identification
Every person on board is documented and accounted for.
- 02Medical fitness
Health information is recorded before it is ever needed.
- 03Emergency preparedness
Drills are repeated so the response is already known.
- 04Reachable next of kin
The people to inform are listed in advance, with numbers that work.
