VMR Brisbane provides a `first response' emergency service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and our base is strategically located at Shorncliffe, adjacent to Brisbane Airport and the Port of Brisbane. A very high priority is placed on all aspects of training including marine operations, first aid, marine radio, bar crossing and emergency search and rescue procedures.

Volunteer Duty Crews maintain a vessel monitoring service every weekend and public holiday from 0600 to 1700 hrs.

After hours calls are attended to by our Emergency Standby Crew. We assist Brisbane Water Police with Search and Rescue and assist Brisbane Ambulance crews with Medivacs.

VMR Brisbane supplies a free `Log On and Log Off' service to the boating public. Boaties will be contacted by our staff by marine radio or mobile if you have not returned by your stated time.

Volunteer Marine Rescue Brisbane Inc is a non-profit volunteer organisation whose primary purpose is to provide marine search and rescue services to the boating public in Moreton Bay and surrounding waterways. We are an affiliated squadron of Marine Rescue Queensland.

Volunteer Marine Rescue Brisbane Inc

Address: 95 Allpass Parade, Shorncliffe Qld 4017

Postal Address: PO Box 201, Sandgate Qld 4017

Phone: 07 3269 8888  Fax: 07 3269 2245

Emergency Contact Number: 0428 022 881

How to Log On

When leaving your port, you should call your local marine rescue organisation to Log On. This in turn will become your radio check. Our Operations Centre Radio Room is manned from 0600 hrs to 1700 hrs every weekend and public holiday. During these hours we monitor the following radio frequencies:

Radio Frequency            Emergency                  General

VHF Channels                        16                    63, 67, 73, 81, 21

27 Mhz Channels                    88                              91

Alternatively to log on or off, please call 07 3269 8888 from your mobile.

Log On Information Required

     •     Vessel Registration Number and/or Name of Vessel

     •     Number of people on board (POB)

     •     Mobile Phone Number

     •     Departure Point and Destination

     •     Estimated Time of Return (ETR)

If staying out overnight, please request to be placed on the overnight log.