The Pager

The Coastguard Pager, the vital piece of equipment to tell the team member they are required, coming in different colours (Swanage's are all green) and with HM Coastguard written on the front in case we forget who we belong too.

The other night, for some reason the pagers failed, this could be a number of reasons.
1) Finger error at the MRCC (pushing keys can sometimes go wrong, some poor person else where got a rude alarm call at 23.50!)
2) Technology failure,
3) Little gremlins in the system

Anyway whatever the reason, we have tested the pagers and all seem to be working again so we will never know.