At the start of 2020 we announced a new organizational brand. We made this change to more accurately reflect our mandate to serve all our local communities. The success and…
Its now 4 months into this very odd 2020 boating season and during that time we have seen a number of unique challenges to our regular practice of marine search…
As an “emergency service”, its easy to think solely on the first response, the launch, the rescue focused on bringing those in need safely home to shore. Isn’t it what…
And just like that, BOOM, the season explodes… As all of us adapt to a “new norm”, our reality as we knew it, seems so distant. Yet at the core,…
The engines rumble into life and a soothing ripple of energy reverberates down the vessel. She is alive once again. The familiar command of “release the lines” echos out on…
A familiar song breaks the morning silence as many of us reluctantly crack open an eyelid. Perhaps its a reflective retort to a mystical mental trigger or an internal rhythm…
Fixed green and a 4 second flash of red, so many emotions... joy, excitement, fear, relief The excitement of what the day might hold... Visions of a big catch out…
Perhaps only in Canada would you have captured the above image. A real juxtaposition of weekend recreational life in a northerly climate. Though only a mere 200 metres apart, both…
It's early February and a light dusting of snow falls over the region. Out on the roads, salters liberally spread their precious cargo behind plows bustling the snow to the…
For over 50 years, the Pickering Auxiliary Rescue Association has served the local Durham Region boating community. From Pickering to Ajax to Whitby we have always answered the call, a…
We are celebrating our 50th Anniversary this year. From humble beginnings forged out of a passion to help those in need we have endured, no we have flourished to be…
All of us are volunteers. None of us do this professionally. Does that mean we don't have the same level of commitment or passion? No it doesn't and that will…
Community helps put Pickering rescue boat back on the water PICKERING -- A Pickering rescue boat is back on the water thanks to the support of the community. On Saturday,...…
Gary Endicott Receives Award of Distinction From the Canadian Coast Guard. Transcript of speech by Kathleen Getty, CCG, at SARSCENE, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2012: I can’t think of no more…
So, 2020, what can one say? To say unique, almost seems like an understatement. To say unprecedented seems in a way presumptuous. In many ways the baseline that defines “normal”…
