Support Newquay Coastguard Association
In An Emergency Dial 999 – Ask for the Coastguard
Coastguard Lingo
There are many abbreviations within the Coastguard Search & Rescue Service. Here are a few for you to navigate through:
- CRO’s – Coastguard Rescue Officers
- CRT – Coastguard Rescue Team
- IRT – Initial Response Team (3 or 4 team members will go and investigate the situation and report back to Falmouth Coastguard)
- BURT – Back-Up Response Team (whole team are paged)
- SAR – Search And Rescue
- CGOC – Coastguard Operations Centres
- NMOC – National Maritime Operations Centre
- MCA – Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Stay Safe
Before heading out on the water …
Rescue Feedback
“Back safe at hotel with cast – broken fibula at ankle end – two attempts to set … ouch! Huge thanks to all the crew! You were super efficient and had great banter which has added to our engagement story!!”
“Great job done as usual”
“Saw you all hard at work yesterday at Little Fistral, thank you for all that you do”
“Your rescue teams do an unbelievable job!”
“RESPECT to our volunteers!”
“Just witnessed the fantastic combined efforts of the RNLI and the Coastguard in a cliff face rescue of a girl stuck ¾’ s the way up”
Our Sponsors
We would like to say a big thank you to our sponsors.
