Good news

A comment received on our Facebook page:-


Hello I am the daughter of the owners of Bobby and because they do not have facebook I have been asked to post that all is well he has a broken toe and slightly chipped tooth but is all safe and well at home thank you again for everything you did for Bobby. :)

Driver training

Driver training this week at Studland.

Bloggies

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Bloggies

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Bloggie List

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Dog falls from Old Harry

Swanage Coastguard IRT were tasked at 15.00 along with the crew of the Swanage ILB to "Bobby" who had chased a seagull and fallen about 90ft.

Fearing the worse the owners from Poole quickly dialled 999 and asked the Coastguard for assistance. 17 minutes later Coastguards and lifeboat crew turned up to find the dog in shock and a broken paw.

The ILB crew brought the dog ashore at South Beach to the waiting Coastguard team and owners. The dog was taken to the vets in Swanage but due to the broken paw and advice from the vet the dog was transferred to the main vets in Wareham.

The owners were very grateful to both the Coastguard and the RNLI, where else in the World would you receive such swift service from volunteers?

As usual we would like to remind owners of dog to keep them on leads when on cliffs, the owners today confirmed they had just taken 'Bobby' off the lead and turned their backs for a minute when he disappeared.

The Swanage Lifeboat crew have just released their video

Setting the standards

Clearly standards have dropped having seen this photo this week. No longer do we go over the cliffs dressed in our "No 1's" (best suit). Note this is quite a senior Coastguard with 3 rings on his sleeve, probably a District Officer......oh how times have changed

How do you all get to an incident?

Not like this anymore....thats for sure

He's on his way back and he's got a couple of tasks

Another welcome visit to the station today by John who readers will know has been quite ill for about 18 months now.
The MCA have been very supportive in John's recovery and not rushing him to return to front line duties.
So now he is feeling a little better it was time to give him a couple of little jobs.....!!!

We have a lot of old photos in a box...no good in a box and certainly no good when you do not know who the photo is of. So having served for 31 years John will go back and name who he can and put the photos in some sort of order.

Job number two, how do you mark 2012 and especially the Queen's Diamond Jubilee year.....?
We have lots of history going back to 1842......?
I wonder if over the years the team has been out on every day of the year......?
One of our new team members has provided a large diary.......

Bingo.....give John all the records, the diary and that's one amazing project.

"Every day of a year" a unique record of incidents on every day of the Coastguard year.

We will see how he gets on.

Mystery picture

OK..........picture of the week.....

Where is it.....what is it?
A little clue its war related.

Drum

Out and about this week, the plastic drum washed up a couple of years remains at Sheps Hollow.
I think we have been called to this 3 times and await the District Council to arrange its collection.

Normally we would say if anything washes up never touch it and call the Coastguard, however in this case......we know about it thank you.