Who makes a good Coastguard?

When the cubs visited us earlier in the week, we explained to them that we were all volunteers and all had 'day jobs' as well as Coastguard.
We then gave a random selecton of jobs, and asked the boys to tell us whether that person would make a good coastguard or not.  Here are the results:

• Teacher:  no
• Painter & Decorator:  no
• Policeman: YES
• Hotel Night Porter: no
• Rock Climbing Instructor: YES
• Business Adviser: no
• Youth Leader: no
• Care Worker: no
• Digger Driver: started as a no, but they came round to the idea, so YES
• Trainer: (ie. powerpoint and course notes, not tracksuit and stopwatch): no
• Planning Officer: no
• Paramedic: YES
• Bloke from the water board: no 

Interesting results, and of course the survey wasnt actually random because these are the occupations of the 13 current serving members of the team.   The important points are a reasonable level of physical fitness, an ability to work as a part of a team, often in challenging conditions and a willingness to learn and 'buy in' to the team ethos.  Oh, and to be able to give up some regular free time to help.

There's a short video here showing what we do.  At 2'25", our friend the QuadPod appears - keep a look out!