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 July 23rd, 2008
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Help the IMRF Save Lives at Sea
“ IMRF Members' rescue services are generally provided free of charge” Our members work, each and every day, hard to make sure that normal activities don't turn into a devastating tragedy for someone or for their families. Our Members' personnel are ready and waiting to provide a professional rescue response should things go badly wrong. And for thousands of people every year, it actually does go wrong. Rescuers are on hand, and often put their own lives at risk to save the lives of people whom they, most likely, may have never have even met before. The IMRF supports these individuals around the world enabling them to help save lives and improve the safety or everyone that plys the waters of our world.
NOW - HOW CAN YOU HELP ? As a Search and Rescue OrganizationAs a SAR organization, you can take advantage of the many benefits of joining IMRF as a Member. Different categories of membership have been established to reflect the different levels of interest and the level of annual subscription, applicable to each category, has been carefully established to repect the general ability of different organizations to pay:Full Member Open to an organization providing a maritime search and rescue service as a primary purpose and doing sop by prior agreement with the authority responsible for SAR in the region. Full members have voting rights. Dues: from $500 to $5000 per year depending on turnover. Join IMRF Affiliate Member Open to subsidiaries of full members - organizations whose primary purpose is the promotion of water safety, or organizations engaged in setting up search and rescue services or functions. Dues: $150 per year Join IMRF Associate Member Open to any organization, business, or individual with an interest in the provision of maritime search and rescue or the promotion of water safety. Dues: $1000 per year Join IMRF As a member organisation you will be able to:
As an IndividualYou may not see yourself as a rescuer, but there are many things which you can do - right now - to save lives.
As a Commercial Company
As a Charitable Trust or FoundationConsider participating with us in any of the following essential developmental areas
As a representative of a GovernmentAs the international body uniting the world's maritime rescue services, IMRF can assist your government, by giving you and your appointed maritime safety agencies and search and rescue organisations access to the world's practical expertise. IMRF is committed to working with governments and intergovernmental agencies to prevent the loss of life at sea.As a representative of a International OrganisationAs an international organisation, you may like the benefit of collaborating with IMRF to achieve common aims. IMRF believes that the scale of the world life loss problem is such that it can only be addressed by the combined efforts of many organisations and governments working together.IMRF is keen to develop partnerships with other international developmental organisations and to co-operate closely with inter-governmental bodies to reach our shared humanitarian objectives. Far Off Foreign Places.... or Exotic Holidayand Business Destinations
Lest we think that this is about someone else, in some far away places, please remember that more and more of us and our families and friends now visit many remote and exotic locations, for business or for vacation, without considereing whether or not there are proper maritime emergency services available if we need them.
Our member organisations struggle financially to ensure that these services are there, free of charge, for you and your loved ones, should you need us. Through IMRF, all member rescue organisation work together to help establish these vital life saving services all around the world - for us all - but with particular focus on helping poorer communities, where our assistance is so desperately needed. This affects ALL of US....EVERYWHERE!
Does This Concern YOU ???
Sure, we may be lucky not to live in a poor country where thousands of lives are lost in the waters each year. For many of these unfortunate people the seas provide for their very survival - it is their source of food and their basic means of transportation. Many have no real choices - they must go to sea, whether it is safe or not, whether they are properly prepared or equipped or not. Moreover, few of them can rely on proper marine emergency services to come to their aid when things inevitably go wrong.
Because this is not part of our daily reality, thoughts of safety at sea or of the maritime rescue services rarely cross our minds. Have you ever stopped to think, how often these vital life saving services of our member organisations come close to the lives of you and your family. -
Further InformationFor more information on how you or your organisation can help, or if you would like to make a donation, please contact us at -
Secretariat, International Maritime Rescue Federation West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ England Tel - +44 (0)1202 663398 Fax - +44 (0)1202 663399 E-mail secretariat@international-maritime-rescue.org |
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