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In 2019 We Have Welcomed the Following Members into the IMRF Community

Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement
Emergency Response Team Seychelles (ERT)
Water Safety New Zealand Incorp (WSN)
HamiltonJet
The Britannia Steam Ship Insurance Association
Pickering Auxiliary Rescue Association
What3Words
Surf Life Saving Kariaotahi INC
Georgia MTA
Marine Offshore Safety Training
Surf Life Saving Kariaotahi INC

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Blog: Patrick van Eyssen, Volunteer, South Africa’s National Sea Rescue Institute

We sit down with last year’s winner of the IMRF’s Vladimir Maksimov Award for Lifetime Achievement and People’s Choice Award Patrick van Eyssen to discuss his volunteering career and what winning those awards meant to him.
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Blog: IMRF Awards - Michael Vlasto

We sit down with Michael Vlasto, a former IMRF trustee and Chair of the IMRF Awards Judging Panel, to discuss the history of the IMRF Awards and his hopes for this year’s nominations.

Request for Lifeboats to Rotterdam

During the coming WMRC in 2023 we will present our lifeboats at this congress and we wish jointly to make it a great success.
G5 Conference - Media Gallery

The photos from the G5 Conference 2022. We have also included the video of the Live Exercise. The photos and video are from SSRS.
Linda Fagan named first female head of US Coast Guard

The United States has confirmed Admiral Linda Fagan as the newest commandant of the US Coast Guard (USCG), replacing Admiral Karl Schultz who retired at the end of May.
The 2022 IMRF Awards are now open for nominations

Its time to recognise your colleagues for their exceptional actions and applaud their expertise and skills in conducting SAR rescue operations. Nominations for the 2022 IMRF Awards are now open.
The IMRF’s #WomenInSAR Initiative … Three Years On

On the first International Day for Women in Maritime, we take a look back at all the work the IMRF has done since it launched the #WomenInSAR initiative in June 2019.
Gearing up for World Drowning Prevention Day

We celebrate the one year anniversary of the UN passing its historic resolution on drowning prevention. As part of this, the IMRF is looking forward to seeing what our members have planned for this year’s World Drowning Prevention Day on 25 July.
IMRF celebrates SAR first responders on World Day for Health and Safety at Work

We celebrate World Day for Health and Safety by thanking all maritime SAR first responders for their tireless efforts to ensure the seas are safe year-round.
Take part: Your SAR Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The University of Lübeck’s department of pulmonology is investigating the changes and challenges our members have faced since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in a bid to improve water and crew safety worldwide in future pandemic situations.
IMRF to Develop Leading International E-Learning Platform

The IMRF is set to develop and launch its own leading international e-learning platform that will support and complement the current suite of international search and rescue (SAR) training offered by the IMRF and its international partners.
Join our Future Technology Panel

The IMRF is looking for some of our smaller and newer members to join our upcoming Future Technology Panels.

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.
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.
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International #WomenInSAR Training and Seminar – Finland – 26-29 August 2022

Join us for the first International Search and Rescue (SAR) IMRF #WomenInSAR Training and Seminar, hosted by the Finnish Lifeboat Institution (FLBI).
The IMRF & Our Mission
Dean Storey, Assistant Commissioner NSW State Emergency Service tells us a bit about his background and his career up to this point

The NSW State Emergency Service (SES) is an emergency and rescue service dedicated to assisting the community. It is a volunteer-based organisation providing emergency assistance to the people of NSW 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
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#WomenInSAR Report

As part of our #WomenInSAR Initiative, in October 2020 we launched our #WomenInSAR survey. We had over 1600 responses from across the globe.
IDRA-ILS-IMRF: COVID-19 Drowning Resuscitation Guidance Published

Resuscitation of the drowned person in the era of COVID-19 disease: A common ground for recommendations, identification of research needs and a global call to action