Photos

The above photo is of Rescue 106 airlifting the mountain biker off Godlingstone Hill a couple of Sundays ago.

We (Swanage Coastguard) and the MCA have a strict code of conduct when it comes to releasing photos of incidents, the casualty always comes first and as in the photo above we had done our bit and were in fact sheltering behind the truck due to the very strong down draft from the helicopter.

We believe its important to show incidents where we can as this promotes the work we do and hopefully in some cases highlights some of the risks involved in certain activities around our area.
Last Saturday when the passenger vessel ran aground I was able to send photos within minutes to the Operations Room in Weymouth so they could see what was going on, something we couldn't really do 10 years ago.

If anyone sends pictures to us we always check them first before putting them on our website. If you do have any of the team in action you can send them to :

Photos@swanagecoastguard.org.uk