IMO Documents

IMO Guidance List

Guidance List and Publications Catalogue

The IMO SAR Guidance Guidance List is free for viewing. Please download below.

	IMO SAR Guidance - January 2019
	Publications Catalogue 2019

For the most up to date IMO Publications, please visit the IMRF Bookshop, or IMO Publishing.

Migration and Maritime SAR

Responding to a need to save lives – Mark Dowie, CEO RNLI defends basic SAR principle. Read more ...
Affiliate Members
IMRF Basic Rescue Boat Operator Manual Webinar Recording - 15 July 2021

The IMRF Basic Rescue Boat Operator Manual Webinar was led by David Whiddon, International Lifesaving Manager, RNLI, and Basic Rescue Boat Operator Manual project lead.
The IMRF Blog: Introducing Cia Sjöstedt

Cia Sjöstedt is an IMRF Trustee and the CEO of Sjöräddningssällskapets, the Swedish Sea Rescue Society.

Chapter 20: The On Scene Coordinator
Chapter 19: The SAR Mission Coordinator
Join the IMRF

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.
Chapter 17: Command, Control & Coordination
Full Members
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.
#WomenInSAR STEM - Interview Series

An interview series focusing on women working and volunteering in maritime SAR. We have interviewed 12 women from across the world, who are working or volunteering in maritime SAR.
Chapter 18: The SAR Coordinator
IMRF Award: The #WomenInSAR Award
The IMRF & Our Mission