Thank You - The Crows Nest Inn, Swanage.

A quick thank you to - The Crows Nest Inn, Swanage.

The Swanage and St Albans Coastguard teams deployed for search operations at approximately 23:00 last night and searched through to 04:00 before standing down for some rest. The teams stood up again this morning to resume the search. 

At about 14:00 this afternoon the search teams were ready to return to station for a quick break and a decision was taken to provide lunch and refreshments to allow the search to continue.

Being a Sunday afternoon options were slightly limited so a team member popped over to The Crows Nest (For those readers not familiar with Swanage, our local pub) to see if they could assist with 25 or so hot meals. It was very short notice but we thought publican Sam Ogden might be able to assist. 

Sam was in the middle of serving up a Crows Nest Sunday Lunch and with a full restaurant he couldn't help directly. 

However - and I think this is a top drawer response - he offered money to buy the Coastguard Team's fish and chips from other premises in town. 

A very generous offer!  

A moment later we heard that the missing person was found safe and we could stand-down search operations. 

Whilst on this occasion we didn't take him up on his kind offer, the teams would like to thank Sam and his team at The Crows Nest Inn anyway.

The Crows Nest Inn