Figures for 2008

The incidents for 2008 stood at 118 incident, this compares to:

2007 115
2006 122
2005 108
2004 111
2003 97

Incidents were broken down as follows

EOD Incidents 2

Animal Rescues 2

Marine Incidents 51

Misc. 5

Pollution 1

Cliff Incidents 11

Medical 13

Investigation 2

Searches 14

Minor Incidents 9

Of those the full team were called out 17 times, and team members dedected 9 incidents.

The vehicle drove nearly 3000 miles

Hours for the year broke down as follows

Routine Station Duties (mostly admin, meetings etc) 358.25 hours

Public Relations, Accident Prevention Patrols 597.25 hours

Training 692.75 hours

Casualty Hours 940.75 hours

Care of Equipment 140.75 hours

Total hours for the Station (Jan - Dec) 2729.75 Hours

Or 114 days of Coastguard work.