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Société nationale de sauvetage en mer

Abbreviation	SNSM
Formation	1967
Type	Life savers
Legal status	NGO
Purpose	The SNSM is the charity that saves lives at sea
Headquarters	Paris
Region served	France
Official language	French
President	Emmanuel de Oliveira
Budget	€20.2 million
Staff	1,200
Volunteers	5,800
Website	www.snsm.org

The Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (SNSM) is a French voluntary organisation founded in 1967 by merging the Société Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufragés (founded in 1865) and the Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons (1873). Its task is saving lives at sea around the French coast, including the overseas départments and territories.

In 2009 the SNSM was responsible for about half of all sea rescue operations and saved 5,400 lives in 2,816 call-outs and assisted 2,140 boats in distress.^[where?] 65% of funding comes from the private sector (donations, bequests and sponsorship) and 35% comes from the national government, the regions, the départements and the local communities.

Fleet

The SNSM has the following boats:

40 All weather lifeboats

34 Class 1 lifeboats (up to 40 knots/force 8)

76 Class 2 lifeboats (up to 33 knots/force 7)

20 Class 4 lifeboats

425 Inshore lifeboats (including jetskis)

All these boats are unsinkable by injection into the hull of closed cell polyurethane foam in reserved spaces, this material is very light compared to water (about 30 times less heavy): with these buoyancy reserves, the boat itself full of water always remains in positive buoyancy; they also have a tight sealed compartment. All-weather lifeboats from 15 meters to 18 meters are self-righting. The first class lifeboat have capacities close to the all-weather rescue boats, the second class lifeboat are intended for slightly less difficult conditions. The first and second class lifeboat, respectively 14 meters and 12 meters, which are the most recent boats, are self-righting, these boats having an all weather type design. The boats are dispersed in 185 stations (including 15 in overseas territories).

Incidents

On 7 Jun 2019, the lifeboat Jack Morisseau set out to rescue a fishing vessel in distress during a storm off the Atlantic coast of France. Twenty minutes after launch, someone reported that the lifeboat was upside down on rocks close to its launch point in Les Sables-d'Olonne. Three of the crew died, one was airlifted out of the sea and three others swam to shore. The fisherman was unaccounted for.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Witherow, John, ed. (8 June 2019). "Three French lifeboat crew die as vessel capsizes". The Times. No. 72868. p. 41. ISSN 0140-0460.
^ "Three dead as Storm Miguel hits French coast". BBC News. 7 June 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2019.

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