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Organizations with Search and Rescue duties maintain shore-based lifeboats ready to go to sea to search for lost or stranded individuals. The first boats built with rescue in mind were constructed in the mid-eighteenth century. Modern search and rescue lifeboats are self-righting, and equipped with modern navigation technology.