National Geographic: More frequent floods and droughts expected in Southeast Asia. Click here for article.

International Rescue Group is going to be needed - we're fighting as fast as we can to get our first rescue boat in operation, commissioning date now October 28th after sea trials.…

the Mad Machinist Matt McMurfin spent the night and this morning tearing down and rebuilding a Hynautic steering pump and 950PSI relief valve. These pumps cost over $1,200 new, so I went on eBay and after about 9 months found this one for $50 that had been on a sunken boat for a while, enough time for the pump's anodized aluminium faceplate to corrode badly. After purchasing a couple of seal rebuild kits for $39 each, Matt took the pump apart after much working at it with anti-seize solvents…

Already gone to the presses, we get Front Page News in the Alameda Sun this Thursday, and they are sending a photographer to the launch of T2 and have already promised another article next week!

Please reply to me, ray.thackeray@internationalrescuegroup.org, if you can help with any of the following:

1. Help prepare our first rescue vessel "T2" for IRG's Launch Fundraiser Event (any day between now and March 30th)
2. Make a large sheet cake for the March 31st …

Here's our first print advertisement. Great work by Liz Hughes at www.designinmedia.net!…