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A Royal Navy rescue helicopter in action above a boat An Auckland Rescue Helicopter in action. Air-sea rescue (ASR or A/SR, also known as sea-air rescue), [1] and aeronautical and maritime search and rescue (AMSAR) by the ICAO and IMO, [2] is the coordinated search and rescue (SAR) of the survivors of emergency water landings as well as people who have survived the loss of their seagoing vessel.
Lindholme Gear (also known as Air Sea Rescue Apparatus Mk 4) was a British air-dropped rescue equipment designed during the Second World War to aid survivors in the water and was still in use in the 21st century. [1] [2]
Crash rescue boat of the Air Sea Rescue Service. For Those in Peril was designed to publicise a little-known unit of the Royal Air Force, the Air Sea Rescue Unit, which was set up in 1941 to save those in distress at sea, particularly airmen who had been shot down or forced to ditch in the water. In common with a number of other war-related ...
Air Rescue is a Sega arcade action game released in 1992, [1] which runs on the Sega System 32 hardware. [2] A Master System game of the same name was released later in 1992, but had little in common with the arcade version. [3] The two games are similar to Choplifter, which Sega had adapted into a hit arcade game.
The Seenotdienst (sea rescue service) was a German military organization formed within the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) to save downed airmen from emergency water landings. The Seenotdienst operated from 1935 to 1945 and was the first organized air-sea rescue service. [1]
USAF Air Rescue Service Boeing SB-17G, an air-sea rescue variant of the B-17 Flying Fortress. Dumbo was the code name used by the United States Navy during the 1940s and 1950s to signify search and rescue missions, conducted in conjunction with military operations, by long-range aircraft flying over the ocean.
No. 280 Squadron was formed at RAF Thorney Island, England on 10 December 1941 as an air-sea rescue squadron. The squadron was equipped with the Avro Anson and was responsible for air-sea rescue along the south coast of England and East Anglia. The squadron re-equipped with the Vickers Warwick in October 1943.
No. 284 Squadron was formed at RAF Gravesend, England on 7 May 1943 [2] from detachments of other air-sea rescue (ASR) squadrons [1] as an air-sea rescue squadron. The squadron moved to RAF Hal Far, Malta in July 1943. The squadron was equipped with the Supermarine Walrus and was responsible for air-sea