Would REGIONAL SAR Coordination Centres, each with the authority to control assets from member's forces/emergency services be a better (less sensitive) option than an all-out UN umbrella organisation?
Might UN control of such centres help in the international political arena whilst giving smaller nations a feeling of autonomy at least on a regional level?
Look, joining a "club" is never easy - look at the EU!!!!! Look also at the struggles in and around the former Soviet Union. But human disasters, at least in times of (relative) peace have at least a tacit desire to pull people out of the deep brown sticky stuff. Might such an organisation help in the future?
If, in doing what we have always done, we shouldn't be too surprised that we get what we always got! Change is needed.
A fine ideal - but in the harsh reality of the cold light of day, and the prickly attitude of most of the worlds countries as regards control of territory within their Maritime boundaries, it just ain't gonna happen. Who would finance such an organisation and who would be given over-arching control? Have you ever tried to organise and take control of a bunch of free-will volunteers? It's impossible, everyone just does their own thing.
A co-operative SAR effort as is now being carried out, will produce the same result as a centrally-co-ordinated SAR, because each group of searchers is homogoneous, with a common language, a disciplined force, and a recognised chain of command. If different SAR groups are searching the same area, even without a central command, any wreckage will be discovered more quickly.
The offering of a wreckage reward to the fisherman and locals is the soundest idea yet produced.