The State’s newest rescue service, Marine Rescue NSW was established in July 2009, with the support of the NSW Government. We officially took to the water on New Year’s Day 2010, backed by our volunteers’ decades of skill and experience. We are not a Government agency but a not-for-profit, community-based organisation.
The organisation brings together members from three former marine rescue organisations that had long served our community with distinction – the Australian Volunteer Coast Guard Association, Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol and Volunteer Rescue Association’s marine fleet – into a single integrated service.