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{{Image|CCGC Cape Sutil at CCG Station Port Hardy.jpg|right|350px|A [[Canadian Coast Guard]] Search and Rescue [[lifeboat]].}}
'''Search and Rescue''' is the term for act of searching for lost or stranded individual, or alternately personnel, vessels or aircraft devoted to searches.
The first dedicated life-saving vessels were the product of local initiatives, in the mid eighteenth century.<ref name=RescueAtSea>
{{cite book
| url=http://books.google.ca/books?id=vYpHHMVWdpoC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=%22lifesaving+services%22&source=bl&ots=WADTXEZQAc&sig=ZbY1-rwgawYvWmDJlZGFZ59kkFA&hl=en&ei=QUWfSdeFNZjeM6yrvOIL&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA20,M1
| title=Rescue at Sea
| publisher=[[Naval Institute Press]]
| isbn=1591147131
| author=Clayton Evans
| date=2004
| accessdate=2009-02-20
}}
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==References==
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