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2. Inflatable rescue boat - Wikipedia

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   Inflatable Rescue Boats (IRBs) are rubber boats with an outboard motor used in surf lifesaving. IRBs have been used for all forms of surf rescue, retrieval, and service by Surf Lifesaving in New Zealand , Australia , and Del Mar, California since the late 1980s.

3. Zodiac Milpro - Wikipedia

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   High speed light boat of the river Seine police unit in Paris in August 2012. Zodiac Milpro, headquartered in Paris, France, is a company that manufactures inflatable boats and rigid hull inflatable boats for the emergency services, military and professional users, including heavy-duty inflatable work boats that can carry payloads up to four tons and passengers for ecotourism, whale watching ...

4. Arancia-class lifeboat - Wikipedia

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   The Arancia surf rescue craft is also used in Surf Rescue competitions to demonstrate the high speed rescue skills of boat crews around the world. When in use it carries up to two crew and is primarily used for surf lifesaving duties. Other small boats operated by the RNLI include the X-class lifeboat, XP-class lifeboat and Y-class lifeboat.

5. Lifeboat (rescue) - Wikipedia

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   In 2009 the SNSM was responsible for about half of all sea rescue operations and saved 5,400 lives in 2816 call-outs and assisted 2140 boats in distress. The service has 41 all-weather rescue boats, 34 first-class rescue boats, 76 second-class lifeboats and 20 light rescue boats (and an amphibious rescue boat), and many inflatable boats.

6. Lifeboat (shipboard) - Wikipedia

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   However lifeboats do not suffer from inflation system failures as inflatable liferafts do. [citation needed] Since 2006 [7] smaller self-rescue lifeboats have been introduced for use by boats with fewer people aboard: these are rigid dinghies with carbon dioxide-inflated exposure canopies and other

7. Women lifesavers train next generation on Australia's ... - AOL

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   Krite, head of the beach’s Inflatable Rescue Boat (IRB) Racing team, has been a volunteer lifesaver for the past 12 years and devotes at least 40 hours per week to shifts during peak season.