The Sea Rescue Unit is a voluntary organisation part of the
Lebanese Civil Defense
The Lebanese Civil Defense or General Directorate of the Lebanese Civil Defense is a public emergency medical service of Lebanon that carries out patient transportation, search and rescue activities and fire-fighting response.
It is funded and ad ...
. Its main task is saving lives at sea around the Lebanese coast. The others tasks include the fire fighting at sea and marine environment stewardship.
Stations
The sea rescue unit of the Lebanese Civil Defense has 4 main station trying to cover the 200Km of the Lebanese coast:
*''Kaslik Sea rescue station'' which serves as Headquarters of the sea rescue unit and is located north of Beirut in the Mount Lebanon Governorate
*''Batroun Sea rescue station'', located in the North Governorate
*''Jiyeh Sea rescue station'', located south of Beirut in the Mount Lebanon Governorate
*''Tyre Sea Rescue station'', located in the South Governorate
[http://www.civildefense.gov.lb/index.php?page=seahelpn List of the sea rescue stations on the Lebanese coast ]
Equipment
The Sea Rescue Unit has different types of boats including:
* High speed boats, some of them equipped with small water cannon for external fire fighting
* Inflatable boats
* Personal watercraft
In addition the sea rescue unit has different types of diving materials and oil pollution response equipment including different types of containment booms.
[https://executive-bulletin.com/business/total-liban-conducts-5th-annual-anti-sea-pollution-exercise-a-demonstration-of-leadership-in-fight-against-sea-pollution
The oil pollution response equipment of the Sea Rescue Unit ]
See also
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German Maritime Search and Rescue Service
The German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (german: Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger - DGzRS, ; lit. ''German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked Persons'') is responsible for Search and Rescue in German territorial waters ...
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Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij
The Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution (Dutch: ''Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij'', abbreviated: ''KNRM'') is the voluntary organization in the Netherlands tasked with saving lives at sea. For that purpose, it maintains 45 lif ...
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Redningsselskapet
The Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue (Redningsselskapet in Norwegian, commonly shortened to RS) is the only organization wholly dedicated to assisting people and vessels at sea along the extensive Norwegian coastline.
Overview
Norwegian Society f ...
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Royal National Lifeboat Institution
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, as well as on some inland waterways. It i ...
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Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Marítima
The Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Marítima (literally: ''Maritime Safety and Rescue Society''), also known as SASEMAR or Salvamento Marítimo, is a sea search and rescue agency that operates in Spain. It is the body in charge of maritime ...
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Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer
The Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (SNSM) is a French voluntary organisation founded in 1967 by merging the Société Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufragés (founded in 1865) and the Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons (1873). Its task is s ...
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Swedish Sea Rescue Society
The Swedish Sea Rescue Society ( sv, Sjöräddningssällskapet, SSRS), formally the Swedish Society for the Saving of Shipwrecked Persons ( sv, Svenska Sällskapet för Räddning af Skeppsbrutne) is a Swedish voluntary organisation that works wit ...
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US Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's eight uniformed services. The service is a maritime, military, multi ...
References
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External links
official site (Arabic) Sea rescue organizations
Emergency services in Lebanon
Medical and health organisations based in Lebanon