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Marine rescue and surf patrol, from the radio watch to the drill record.

Eight films. Seven at one marine rescue unit: an 11.5 m offshore vessel, a 7.2 m inshore vessel and a radio base, on the Australian rule pack. The eighth at a surf club’s beach with an IRB and a rescue water craft, ending at a New Zealand unit. The crew’s phone and the dashboard play together, chapter by chapter.

Film 3 of 8: Crew to vessel

Gannet One has no skipper, and Luka’s first aid lapsed yesterday. As the crew sign on, the board counts their records, and the base turns Available at 07:12.

In this filmCrew to vessel

Gannet One is needed offshore but has no skipper and no current first aider. Watch the board change as the crew sign on.

Luka signs on as crew
Luka’s first aid has lapsed
Rhiannon signs on as skipper
Available at 07:12
0:00 / 1:16

Gannet One is needed offshore but has no skipper and no current first aider. Watch the board change as the crew sign on.

  1. Luka signs on as crew. 07:09. Sione Tapu is already on Gannet One as radio operator. Skipper and Crew are empty. Luka Petrovic signs himself on as crew from his phone, on base. The board still says no first aider is aboard. Luka holds first aid, but it lapsed yesterday.
  2. Luka’s first aid has lapsed. Competencies are recorded with who validated them and when they run out. Luka’s first aid ran out on 27 October. The rule pack says who must be aboard: a first aider and a radio operator, plus engineering from 12 m. Sione covers radio. Nobody aboard holds current first aid, and the board says so until someone does.
  3. Rhiannon signs on as skipper. 07:12. Rhiannon Calder taps Sign on beside Skipper. Before she confirms, the app shows her band. Her band comes from her competencies against the vessel’s length and area: offshore, under 12 m. Her first aid is current, so a first aider is aboard too. The app shows records, never whether to launch.
  4. Available at 07:12. Gannet One is crewed: offshore to 30 nm, night yes, tow yes. What the base declares is met: Available. The change is kept: Limited to Available at 07:12, during day cover. Had her competencies met only a lower band, the Crew lane would say so, and Gannet One would count only that far.

Illustrated from the real crew app and dashboard, with marine switched on. The rule pack is Australia: Exemption 24 (2025), MO 504, NSCV C7A and C7B; limits, items, intervals and wording are set by each unit. The board shows availability by the unit’s own records, never a vessel’s condition or survey status. The decision to launch stays with the skipper. Alerts appear in the dashboard. Reports to a regulator are made by the unit, and Escudo Emergency records their reference. The surf film is on Surf Life Saving Australia: award proficiency, with the club’s own patrol requirement, and its last chapter on the New Zealand pack, still to confirm. Escudo Emergency never marks anyone proficient: the assessor’s record does. Gannet Head, Tern Bay and Kahu Bay, their people, vessels and craft are invented.

Options and solutions

Everything marine rescue brings, in one place.

An organisation’s administrator switches marine on in Settings. Every Escudo Emergency check keeps working alongside it, including the 32 starter templates for marine rescue and the 8 for surf life saving.

What the marine board counts

VesselsVessels on run against what the base declares, with their permissions in date. A vessel on a job is not available for another.
CrewA skipper whose competencies meet the rule pack’s band for the vessel’s length and area, and the people needed aboard.
Safety equipmentLiferafts, beacons, lifejackets, flares and the rest in date and serviced. Items due soon show as notes.
Base and radioA declared radio watch open, and the radio base check done and passed today. Otherwise who holds the watch.

Each base is Available, Limited, Not available or Not set against what it declares, with the reasons in plain words. A lapsed permission or an overdue EPIRB, hydrostatic release or liferaft takes a vessel off run; other overdue appliances restrict it. Changes not acknowledged go to fleet managers after 15 minutes and to org admins after 60.

What a surf beach counts

CraftThe IRBs and rescue water craft at the beach, their checks, defects and engines. An overdue engine service restricts the craft it is fitted to.
PatrolMembers signed on to patrol, counted against the club’s own requirement by who holds each award current. One person can meet several awards.
GearDefibrillators, oxygen and first aid kits at the beach or on its craft, in date.

A beach on a surf rule pack has three lanes instead of four. The club enters how many signed on must hold each award current, from its own service agreement; nothing is seeded. A failed check ends an award’s currency, and a lapsed prerequisite lapses the award built on it. Members sign on to patrol and log each IRB and RWC use from the phone, with or without signal, and the log totals each engine’s hours and each person’s sea time, shown as evidence only.

Rule packs

Each base chooses a pack, or none. Values marked to confirm are confirmed with each customer before they are relied on.

  • Australia: Exemption 24 (2025), MO 504, NSCV C7A and C7B. Skipper bands by length and area, a first aider and a radio operator aboard, appliance intervals, flares 36 months from manufacture, the Exemption 02 yearly declaration, procedure reviews every 12 months, and the written report to AMSA within 72 hours of a marine incident.
  • New Zealand: Maritime NZ certificates and Part 42A (to confirm). Skipper bands from the Maritime NZ Skipper Restricted Limits and Skipper Coastal/Offshore certificates (renewed every 5 years) with the unit’s Coastguard ratings shown beside them, a skipper plus two qualified crew as an editable default, exemptions as a dated list per vessel or master with an expiry alert, appliance servicing intervals, and notifying Maritime NZ after a marine incident.
  • Surf Life Saving Australia: award proficiency. Awards current to 31 December each season (31 July for Northern Australia clubs), a check passed after 30 June carrying to the next season, First Aid for 3 years. Prerequisites seeded with each award: IRB Driver needs Bronze and IRB Crew current.
  • Surf Life Saving New Zealand: award currency. Surf Lifeguard and IRB Driver awards current for 12 months from the date done, RWC Operator for 24 months, with the IRB Driver’s prerequisites.
  • Organisation rules. For markets no checkable public instrument covers. Sets nothing itself: your own positions, competencies, crew rules and appliance regimes apply.
Marine availabilityEach base Available, Limited, Not available or Not set, what it can do now, four lanes, and each vessel with its positions.
Open changesEach change with its cause, acknowledged with a note and who outside was advised, and escalated if nobody does.
Marine operationsActivations with tasking-to-underway against your own target, drills signed by each person, occurrences and procedures.
Marine setupWhat each base declares, vessel particulars and permissions, positions, safety equipment, certificates and competencies.
Certificate registerAppend-only: a wrong certificate is voided with a reason, never edited or removed.
CompetenciesEach member’s awards as the assessors recorded them: current, lapsed, not yet competent, or a prerequisite lapsed, with logged sea time beside IRB and RWC awards as evidence only.
EnginesEach engine with its own hours and services, fitted and removed between hulls. The SLSA IRB 25 hp motor chart is an optional preset; every other engine takes the maker’s intervals.
Use logEach IRB and RWC use as the crew logged it on the phone, offline: the engine, who was aboard and the hours, with each person’s sea time over 12 months.
AlertsAppliances, permissions, declarations, competencies and procedure reviews coming due, in the dashboard.

What Escudo Emergency never does

Records only. Escudo Emergency keeps the records, works out the board and reminds people. The decisions stay with your skippers, your officers and your procedures. More on marine rescue.

  • Declare a vessel’s condition or survey status: the board shows what the records say
  • Decide whether to launch: that stays with the skipper
  • Lodge a report with AMSA or any other regulator
  • Decide what counts as a marine incident
  • Record the names of people assisted: a number only
  • Set how often you drill: that comes from your risk assessments
  • Mark anyone proficient: the assessor’s record does, and logged sea time is evidence only
  • Set a patrol minimum or an engine service interval: the club enters its own
  • Set a tasking-to-underway target: none is published, so the target is yours
  • Record fuel quantities, dates of birth, health details or rest hours

See it with your own vessels

Send us your pre-launch check and what your base declares. We will set up a base with marine switched on and show you the board working.

Or email us: info@escudoready.com

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