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The Trustees are elected for four years of office by the member organisations at the Quadrennial General Meeting, which takes place in conjunction with the World Maritime Rescue Congress. The most recent World Maritime Rescue Congress was held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in June 2023. Caroline Jupe currently serves as Chief Executive.
The International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR Convention) is a maritime safety convention of the International Maritime Organization. [1] [2] It entered into force on 22 June 1985. [1] [3] The convention forms part of the legal framework covering Search and rescue at sea. [4] The SAR Convention was adopted on 27 April 1979.
Operations suspended, December 2024. [30] Golfo Azzurro [31] Proactiva Open Arms Panama: 40 m Proactiva Open Arms also operate a sailing yacht Astral, [16] and Open Arms: VOS Hestia: Save the Children (operation Rescue at sea) [32] Italy: 59 m Stopped 3 month operation in October 2016 [3] Iuventa [33] Jugend Rettet Netherlands: 33 m
China Rescue and Salvage is by law responsible for emergency response to maritime emergencies in Chinese waters, including life saving operations, ship and property rescue, shipwreck and sunken object salvage, maritime firefighting, cleanup of oil spills, and other public welfare responsibilities such as providing safety guarantee for maritime transportation and offshore resource developments.
(a) The Maritime Safety Committee shall consider any matter within the scope of the Organization concerned with aids to navigation, construction and equipment of vessels, manning from a safety standpoint, rules for the prevention of collisions, handling of dangerous cargoes, maritime safety procedures and requirements, hydrographic information ...
The Swedish Sea Rescue Society (Swedish: Sjöräddningssällskapet, SSRS), formally the Swedish Society for the Saving of Shipwrecked Persons [1] (Swedish: Svenska Sällskapet för Räddning af Skeppsbrutne) is a Swedish voluntary organisation that works with maritime search and rescue on Swedish lakes and seas. The society runs 70 lifeboat ...
The United States' National Search and Rescue Supplement was written as a supplement to the IAMSAR, and together they constitute the U.S.'s National Search and Rescue Plan. [4] The United States Coast Guard also publishes an addendum to the supplement [ 5 ] which is referenced several times in the USCG's Radiotelephone Handbook.
A maritime emergency refers to any critical situation at sea where a vessel or its crew faces immediate distress, such as mechanical failure, fire, severe weather, medical emergencies, or collisions. These emergencies can trigger rescue operations involving specialized maritime safety measures and coordination between various maritime ...