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HOW WE ACT IN EMERGENCIES (DEFYING THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS)

We leave you this video made by the crew of the Salvamar Izar. The steps are clear.

1. We go on duty
2. We collect data
3. We get underway
4. We locate
5. We act
6. Every second counts. That's why we do it quickly. And we save lives.
7. Back to base

What this video doesn't say is that after returning to base, the operation starts again with another call: someone in danger, someone at sea who needs our help!

Some will say it's like the myth of Sisyphus (that absurd punishment of Sisyphus to push a heavy rock up a mountain only to fall back down when he reaches the top). But, in this case, reaching the top translates into lives saved. Many lives. In the 30 years since Salvamento Marítimo was created, more than 680,000 people have been searched for, rescued or assisted.

Thank you for this video (by Álvaro Rodríguez) and thanks to all the professionals for climbing impossible peaks. That is what makes you 'special'.

Remote controlled, it can be used to get people in the water closer to the boat, and I think also to get lines across to a stranded vessel (?). This would be especially awesome, as that way you don't endanger your rescue boat by sailing into the shallows and you don't have to use line throwing rockets.

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🚨 The moment of sinking: The sea rescuers from the Büsum station of the German Society for the Rescue of the Shipwrecked (DGzRS) rescued two fishermen from a life raft on the North Sea on August 18, 2023. After a fire 🔥 on board, the fishermen had to leave their ship. The video shows our rescue cruiser THEODOR STORM at the scene of the accident as the cutter sinks, recorded by the rescue cruiser HERMANN MARWEDE.

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Saturday, 29/07/2023 - Last Saturday, VBZR lifeguards trained together with the Blankenberge Beach and Rescue Service.

The beach rescuers witnessed a head-on collision between a jet scooter and a motorboat with all its consequences. The drowning persons were carried off to the beach by the beach rescuers who were the first on the scene. The seriously injured skipper also had to be evacuated via the Sterken Dries. The incident vessel and scooter were towed to the port of Blankenberge.

A short search was then held with the 5 sar units during which the operation of the VBZR drifter was explained.

A wonderful collaboration with smooth communication. Thanks to the participating services. Beach and Rescue Service Blankenberge IKWV - Intercommunale Kustreddingsdienst West-Vlaanderen O'neill Beachclub Blankenberge Maritime Rescue and Coordination Center Ostend

More information on https://www.international-maritime-rescue.org/saryouok

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The first rescue boat of a new 8.4-meter class of the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (DGzRS) is being put through its paces. Among other things, it has to prove in a capsize test that it - like all DGzRS rescue units - is a self-righting vessel.
Three units of this class - all with aluminum hulls and jet propulsion - are designed in cooperation with the DGzRS by Arctic Airboats in Finland and manufactured by a special Finnish boatbuilding company.
Like their seven-meter predecessors built in 1993, these sea rescue boats will be launched via the beach. They are stationed on special trailers, also newly constructed, in our mostly historic rescue sheds in Wustrow, Zingst and Zinnowitz. Powerful John Deere 6R 230 tractors, specially converted for maritime use, will take them to the field, either to the open Baltic Sea or to the widely ramified backwaters of the Bodden and Haff.

Translated description: "Every year, at sea and on the beaches, nearly 32,000 people are rescued by the Sauveteurs en Mer 🆘 By making a donation to the SNSM, you enable them to train all year round and have the equipment they need to save you 🌊"