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The DGzRS is responsible for maritime search and rescue (SAR) service in Germany's maritime zones in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea (German SAR region). The Bremen Maritime Co-ordination Centre (MRCC) is where distress calls and all emergency notifications converge and missions are co-ordinated. The MRCC is in direct telephone contact with the Rescue Co-ordination Centre (RCC) in Glücksburg (the German Army’s SAR service), thanks to a dedicated line.


In an emergency within the German SAR region, the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre, (MRCC) BREMEN, is responsible for leading the entire mission from start to finish. The centre provides planning, management, co-ordination, realisation and completion of the SAR interventions and their documentation.


The centre is manned 24/7 by two watch co-ordinators as well as a person monitoring the BREMEN RESCUE RADIO. The duties of this person include ensuring uninterrupted monitoring of VHF channels 16 (voice-only) and 70 (DSC) for distress, emergency and safety purposes, and handling distress, emergency and safety calls on VHF.


In an emergency at sea, the MRCC in Bremen can request the assistance of SAR
aircrafts from the German Army’s Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Glücksburg,
according to an agreement with the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of
Defence. Conversely, in accordance with the same agreement and in its role as
“regional SAR centre 8”, the MRCC will put its communication and mission resources
at the disposal of Glücksburg in emergencies involving aircrafts.


Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre BREMEN
Werderstr. 2, 28199 BREMEN, GERMANY Available 24/7:
Telephone + 49 (0) 421 – 536 87 14
Telex 2 46 466 mrcc d
AFTN EDDWYYYX (via Bremen air traffic control)


Alerts may also be directed to “Bremen Rescue Radio” (call sign: Bremen Rescue) on VHF channels 16 and 70 (DSC) or the call number 124 124 from the German mobile radio system in the mission area.




In addition to the agreement on the undertaking of search and rescue services
in maritime emergencies of 1982, on 7 November 1996 the German Federal
Ministry of Transport conferred to DGzRS the monitoring of VHF channels 70 and
16 as well as the handling of distress, emergency and safety radio calls related to
the area of search and rescue, starting 1 January 1999.
Thus, besides the MRCC in Bremen, the DGzRS, for all intents and purposes,
holds the status of a coastal radio station for emergency calls. "Bremen Rescue
Radio" is both physically and operationally part of MRCC Bremen.


The official designation is
"Bremen Rescue Radio" and the
call sign is "Bremen Rescue"
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The patron of the DGzRS is the German Federal President

"The DGzRS is independently and single-handedly rendering an invaluable service to this country and to all those at sea. Probably, it is only the tens of thousands
of individuals who over decades have been rescued from a seemingly hopeless situation, who can truly judge the courage and bravery of the rescue crews.
However, the great number of friends and sponsors of the organisation proves the immeasurable esteem in which the maritime rescue service is held by the people of Germany. I wish the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service the best of luck for the future and God’s blessing."

Those were the words of the patron of the DGzRS, German Federal President Horst Köhler, as he paid tribute to the work of the rescue service.