marine rescue
Saving seafaring souls
Marine rescue is the organized effort to save people in distress at sea or in coastal waters.
It encompasses operations by coast guards, lifeboats, helicopters, and volunteer services responding to emergencies like capsized vessels, swimmers in trouble, or ships taking on water: The marine rescue team reached the stranded sailors within an hour.
The term covers both the activity and the organizations that perform it.
- coastguardSeafaring emergency responders
- coast guard stationCoastal maritime safety facility
- lifeboatEmergency vessel for survivors
- helicopterRotary-wing aircraft
- survivorOne still alive after
lost at sea · mayday · distress · distress signal · choppy · waves · swimmer · diver · emergency services · buoy · life jacket · flare · beacon · raft · stranded · capsized · stormy · crew
- maritimeships, ship, boat, boats, anchors
- marine conservationbeach cleanup, oil spill cleanup, shark conservation, ocean cleanup, habitat restoration
- Rescuersfirefighter, paramedic, EMT, lifeguard, first aider
- maritime studiesseamanship, oceanography, hydrography, celestial navigation, piloting
- Emergency MedicineEMT, emergency medicine, EMS, paramedic, paramedics
- Emergency Servicesambulance, firefighters, paramedics, police, first responders
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Summit emergency retrieval team
cave rescue · mine rescue · alpine rescue · air rescue · fire rescue
marine rescuecasting adrift
Releasing without guidance or anchor
shipwreck · drowning · maritime disaster · sinking · marooning
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