The February Newsletter LIFELINE which is published by the International Maritime Rescue Organisation (http://international-maritime-rescue.org/) focuses on the provision of external assistance being provided to vessels at sea. There are a number of references to MIRGs within the newsletter. You can read…
On Thursday 19 January the Zeeland MIRG was alarmed: a fire in the engine room of the Argo, sailing on the Westerschelde river (NL), was discovered. The Argo is 67-meter long inland ship, at that time shipping stones. After discovery…
From Worldmaritimenews.com: A fire broke out in one of the cargo holds of the general cargo ship Ventura as the ship was about to enter the Kiel Canal on 18 December 2015. Local firefighters were dispatched to the scene who managed to…
The full scale exercise will take place on two vessels: a smaller vessel and a large one. Total Refinery has confirmed they will provide the smaller vessel. For two days the French MIRG will be able to practice on board the Total bunker…
The main goal of all exercises is to learn. Therefore, the MIRG-EX partners will invite both experts and professionals active in maritime search and rescue, fire services, incident response and civil protection to witness the full scale exercise. They are not there to…
As part of the preparation for the full scale MIRG Exercise, both a table top exercise and a command post exercise will be organised. The table top exercise will take place in Arras, France on 8 and 9 March. Representatives of all MIRGs…
Today the four partners of the MIRG-EU project officially ended the three year Interreg IVA 2Seas project with a final conference in Vlissingen. The various presenters looked back on the results of the project, presented case studies from Iceland and…
The PowerPoint Presentations of our Final Conference are now on line. You can find them on our downloads page. The film made during the Large Scale Exercise
Today the four partners of the MIRG-EU project officially ended the three year Interreg IVA 2Seas project with a final conference in Vlissingen. The various presenters looked back on the results of the project,
The Dutch and Belgian MIRGs had their winch training in Belgian Koksijde. If you want to feel a little bit what the team members did during this training, than watch this movie from Ton den Breejen on You Tube