Irish Coast Guard Rescue Boat Operational Guidelines

The Irish Coast Guard (IRCG), the Community Rescue Boats of Ireland (CRBI) and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) provide declared Search And Rescue (SAR) services to the IRCG operating as the maritime SAR Coordinator. The CRBI is made up of eleven independent organisations grouped together for the purposes of these guidelines. The Irish Coast Guard provide the SAR assets to the Rescue Coordination Centre through it’s Coast Guard Units & Support Section who manage the Coast Guard’s own SAR assets.

These guidelines are written as a collaborative effort between the IRCG, the CRBI and the RNLI recognising the joint venture of maritime SAR in Ireland. As a voluntary agreement between individual organisations, nothing in these guidelines or in the resulting regime is intended to, or will have the effect of, changing the independent nature of each of the individual operator organisations.