Global crisis response and qualified individual services provider Witt O’Brien’s has announced the acquisition of Navigate Response, a global crisis communications network specializing in the international shipping, port, and offshore industries. Witt O’Brien’s is part of the Seacor family of businesses.

Navigate Response was launched in 2012 to help solve the crisis communications and media challenges faced by shipowners and managers trading globally. The joining of the two companies brings maritime crisis communicators and operational crisis responders together under one roof for the first time.

Read the full announcement here.