Associate Membership – Waterside Assistance
We have now stopped excepting New Memberships and renewing existing Associate Memberships
Volunteer Marine Rescue Jacobs Well is a not-for-profit Community organisation, providing marine search and rescue, waterside assistance and medical services to the local northern Gold Coast and Logan area waterside communities. The local area public greatly support us via fundraising activities and associate membership fees. Without this support we would not be able to continue to provide our 24 hour / 7 days a week service.
VMRJW has agreed to join Marine Rescue Queensland (MRQ) from the 9th of December. MRQ’s core role is to provide marine assistance to people, or vessels, in difficulty or distress.
As a Queensland Government-funded service, boaties seeking assistance from MRQ Jacobs Well will automatically be covered for the cost of rescue services and you will no longer need an Associate Membership for assistance.
This means MRQ Jacobs Well will stop accepting payments for memberships from the 1st of Dec 2024. All memberships will remain current until we transition to MRQ where everyone will receive assistance as normal.
Once we transition to MRQ, our unit will provide rescue services at no cost to the boating community when they face difficulty or distress. Your continued support of our volunteers will still be appreciated. Any donations will be gratefully accepted and are tax deductible.
If you require on-water assistance in other areas which have not yet transitioned to MRQ, you will need to continue contacting the local VMR or Coast Guard unit and cover any costs with that unit directly.
Continue to log-on and off as normal. MRQ will be launching a new app – the MRQ App – in the next six months.
Our rescue capability and operating hours remain the same.
Our unit is proud to be continuing the history of marine rescue activities in the Jacobs Well area.
Remember, if you need help on the water, contact us using VHF radio channels 16 or 82, by calling the base directly on 5546 1100, or calling our new 131MRQ (131 677) hotline. If you are in a life-threatening emergency call Triple Zero (000) immediately.
Please be aware we are not a commercial salvage business. We are here to help fellow boaties.
Our Charter, Insurance, Licence and Survey Regulations allow us to assist you on the water when in distress and there is an immediate danger to life or property. We can tow your vessel back to ‘safe harbour’ or in most cases your point of departure or launching that trip.
