January 4th, 2013
On December 1, 2012 the members of POCOMAR joined forces with other organizations from the Niagara Region to take part in the annual Port Colborne Santa Clause Parade of Lights. Armed with over 1200 candy canes, boxes of lights and decorations, and our robotic friend ´Bobbie´ we met up at our new headquarters earlier in the afternoon to decorate our POCOMAR 2 (P2) vessel, which was to be towed by our Operations Officer, Brian Canter. Once the decorating was complete, we bundled up in our immer...
April 27th, 2010
Spring has arrived and with it one of our busiest seasons. All of you work hard to prep your vessels to get them cleaned and tuned up so that they are ready to provide yet another year of exemplary service to the boating public. Auxiliary vessels are scrutinized by the boating public so looking good and being seaworthy is important. Your efforts do not go unnoticed.
I would ask that once you are operational, you remember two things.
First, our objective is to have every member certified ...
September 10th, 2009
To: All Members
This note is to advise you that at the Training Committee meeting in Feb 2009 it was agreed that having participated in any of the following activities during the previous five years would qualify a member to retain their membership. Effective immediately the activities are as follows.
Retention of SAR Crew Membership
Complete 1 of the following every 5 years:
SAR Course or
SAR Operations Course or
SAR OCC Course or
SAR Instructors Course or
Instructing any Regional T...