THE NSRI: Two weeks of dramatic rescue operations

Hundreds of volunteers of the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) have worked day and night over the past two weeks to save lives and bring people and animals to safety in the worst storm surges and flash floods for decades. Craig Lambinon - who has been with the NSRI for 30 years - reveals the massive efforts involved in the recent rescue operations. The NSRI is a free publicly-funded 24-hour rescue service that has saved at least 1 000 lives over the past year. Lambinon shares with BizNews the “success story” of the NSRI; reveals details of its most dramatic rescue operations; and speaks about its “world-class resources” - and the funding from the public and corporations that makes it possible to save so many lives. “…we always say to the people who donate money to NSRI or people who fund NSRI through corporate sponsorships, even though they're not physically with us on rescue operations, we still regard them as being strapped to our back when we launch a rescue operation because without them, we don't have the world-class resources and assets that we have to respond to these emergencies.”