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20.01.2022 Yesterday you could say we did our first tow job. Lady broken down on a jet ski at the south end of Green island. Luckily she had a VHF, but when the radio call went out to VMR Victoria Point because she had seen their boat in the area, there was no response from them, even on VHF 16. We had overheard the call and found the lady who was starting to get very concerned. We did a long slow tow (no tow tap) back up to Nudgee beach boat ramp, and waited around for her husband to arrive to maintain her safety. What would have cost her hundreds of dollars from another agency, we did for free. Search and Rescue Queensland

19.01.2022 Here is some basic safety information with thanks to the Australian Watercraft Registry which is especially suited to kayakers who fish, people with SUPs or surf ski's that do downwind events or paddle in the bays or offshore. Please share it around and if you have any questions comment below.

18.01.2022 SARQLD: I think we'll get a truck Everyone: Thats a stupid waste of money Exmouth: Check out our new truck, it's awesome. Everyone: Congratulations

16.01.2022 A funny old person story. Last year I attended the War on Wrecks Taskforce meeting chaired by Kim Richards MP, where the Dept. of Transport / MSQ openly admitted that the oldest person with a valid recreational boat licence is 135 yrs old. Yet the oldest person below is 111 yrs. That means in the entire history of the internet, the Queensland Government hasn’t run recreational boating properly, but now want to up and run Search and Rescue. It would take and I.T. person less than a week to network the Births, Deaths and Marriages database with the Dept. of Transport licence database, so deceased persons would automatically be removed, but yet here we are. Anyone want to wait 25 years for a rescue?

15.01.2022 After 9 years of service, I chose to give that up to wear a cost, a very personal cost. I'm putting myself in the firing line, so that "the mission" and the boating community can prosper.

13.01.2022 Some serious waves out there. The biggest I've experienced in the Pin Bar was 4.5 -5m and was the Nav at the time. One vessel has already capsized at the Maroochy River entrance this morning.

12.01.2022 Years ahead of the government .

11.01.2022 The Search and Rescue Queensland difference, we would search in to the night. Yes it more difficult, but when the boats go home, if they persons still alive in the water, it's game over.

11.01.2022 If you were doing a risk assessment on the top end, this would wipe out the need for about 4 rescue bases, especially if you teamed it with the already situated QLD Gov Air assets.

10.01.2022 I found this video today and it comes from one of this centuries greatest speakers.

10.01.2022 I commented on the post but they deleted it. The BWR is not a merger, it's an acquisition. After the QLD Government acquires both organisations, at no point will you get any managerial operation of the new entity, or ownership of the current or new assets. There is no release of a business model because they don't want you to know that both organisations are about to lose about $20 million each. The promise of the "new funding" is only going to happen after the acquisition of the organisations, with the funding going to the new entity, run and owned by the government. I know this because QFES told me directly, and thats why I put an offer in against it. The BWR process is under investigation by the Crime and Corruption Commission.

09.01.2022 Broken systems, poor leaders, and ummm, name dropping .

08.01.2022 The Queensland Government have been asleep at the wheel for so long, you can't seriously think they can be responsible for marine safety, they can't even run the things they are already responsible for. Search and Rescue Queensland feels the right approach is an experienced professional team of people with the know how and that have proven themselves to care for the marine community in Queensland. If your an Active Member of a Coast Guard or Volunteer Marine Rescue Base in Queensland, you've been invited to vote if your base would like to become a fully funded base under the banner of Search and Rescue Queensland. Each committee of each base has been sent the invitation, if you haven't been invited by your management to vote, ask them why they're hiding this option.

08.01.2022 https://www.coastwatch.com.au/bar-aerials

07.01.2022 Email sent to all VMR and AVCG bases in Queensland. They have less than 4 weeks left to consider our offer and and be fully funded in to the future. Members of the rescue community,... A month has passed since we first offered you an Invitation to become fully funded as part of the future binding together of what is the volunteer rescue services in Queensland. This is just a gentle reminder that we are looking for over 50% of the current bases of the Volunteer Marine Rescue and the Australian Volunteer Coast Guard in Queensland to indicate that they wish to be fully funded as part of the Search and Rescue Queensland proposal which we believe to be more stable than that of which the Queensland Government has not yet released details on. As we are not looking for this to drag on forever, as there is much work to be done, we have put a time limit on our offer, the 1st of March, 2021. We have received many enquiries about what our offer includes, especially around funding, the future of training, requirements for skippers, vessel packages that we have quotes for, electronic upgrades to new and existing vessels, and what the new integrated radio network will look like. I've also contacted executives in the VMR pointing out how poorly they've performed leading the organisation into this situation, which in the future, will no longer exist, I feel sorry for Mr Hubner Snr, what he must be thinking. I can't explain to you why out of all the rescue volunteers, I'm the only one who put their hand up to try to save the organisation from consumption by the government, but I can tell you that like all of you, I'm here honestly to help, to make things better for the boating community of Queensland, and for Safety of Life at Sea. Please read through the documents I've provided, and I'd appreciate if you would show the members of each of your locations the respect they deserve and forward the information on to them so they also have a say in their future, and what happens to the efforts they've invested in to each squadron. kind regards Adam Smith Founder Search and Rescue Queensland 0476 88 5553 0419 639 893 [email protected]

05.01.2022 What a journey the last 6 months has been. Sitting here at my desk now, and the countless hours I've spent here working figures, inventing new improved systems, getting quotes, in deep thought on how my previous experience can be harnessed to create a durable network of systems, infrastructure, technology and human resources to make Search and Rescue the best it could be. The team is still working really hard to reach our goal of Phase 1 starting on the 1st of July 2021. With the government agency now being investigated, my hope is that good people were not lead astray in false hope.

05.01.2022 Surfs up NSW. Data drawn from https://mhl.nsw.gov.au/Station-SYDDOW

03.01.2022 Just another example of how private enterprise out performs the government.