Search and Rescue

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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.[1]

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  1. Clayton Evans (2004). Rescue at Sea. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1591147131. Retrieved on 2009-02-20.