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Lifeboat Crew Exchange 2021 - Webinars - 22 & 23 September 2021

The IMRF is pleased to announce our upcoming IMRF Lifeboat Crew Exchange Webinars.
IMRF Awards 2021 - Captain Chen Jian, China Rescue & Salvage (CRS)

Captain Chen Jian, China Rescue & Salvage (CRS), Winner of the IMRF Award for Outstanding Individual Contribution to Maritime SAR Operations.
IMRF Awards 2021 - Lifeboat Station Scheveningen, KNRM

Lifeboat Station Scheveningen, KNRM, Runner Up for the IMRF Award for Outstanding Team Contribution to Maritime SAR Operations.
IMRF Awards 2021 - Anna Bertrandsson Littke, SSRS

Anna Bertrandsson Littke, Swedish Sea Rescue Society (SSRS) – Joint winner of the IMRF #WomenInSAR Award.

Chapter 20: The On Scene Coordinator
Chapter 19: The SAR Mission Coordinator
A New Initiative for World Maritime Day – 30 September 2021

The IMO Secretary General, Mr Kitack Lim, has announced a new initiative to mark the World Maritime theme each year, beginning with the theme for 2021, "Seafarers: at the core of shippingʹs future.”
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Be part of the international NGO that is working to improve global maritime SAR capability. IMRF Members support each other and share knowledge, experience, expertise and innovations through the programme of webinars, conferences, meetings, forums and other activities.
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Chapter 17: Command, Control & Coordination
SAR Matters: Defining Distress Continued ...

People known to be in distress need to be rescued, of course – and the SAR community knows that this concept must also be extended to those believed to be in distress, and to those who, while not yet in distress, will become so if help is not provided to them in the meantime.
Chapter 28: Exercises and Drills
The IMRF Awards 2021 Shortlist Is Revealed

The judges for the 6th IMRF Awards have finished reviewing all the submissions and have announced this years’ award finalists.
Chapter 18: The SAR Coordinator

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