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Over the past seven years, Marine Rescue NSW has invested more than $15million in a dedicated program to provide its volunteers with safe, modern and professional rescue vessels for their vital work to save lives on the water.
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The comprehensive Fleet Modernisation Program has delivered an impressive 66 new and fully refurbished state-of-the-art vessels to MRNSW units throughout the state to help ensure the safety of their volunteer crews and the members of the boating community whom they assist.
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Port Stephens 31 (John Thompson), an $840,000 Steber 38 fitted with a flybridge, is the newest vessel delivered under the program, with new boats also to be delivered to the Marine Rescue Port Macquarie, Terrigal, Batemans Bay and Jervis Bay units in coming weeks.
Commissioner Stacey Tannos said the organisation’s dominant investment in the modernisation program had delivered major safety benefits for the organisation’s members.
“It was clear from the earliest days of the new organisation that the most pressing need faced by our units was for new vessels,” he said.
“The safety of our members must always come first.
“Our volunteers are committed to their mission to save lives, often putting their own personal safety at risk to rescue people they don’t know in rough seas and sometimes appalling weather working in an environment that can be challenging, changeable and sometimes dangerous.”