The 800th post

The recent request to show the last 5 years incidents showed the following :

12 Incidents with bomb disposal teams.

16 Incidents involving animals, I believe dogs mostly and one deer.

287 Incidents at sea.

27 Miscellaneous incidents.

7 Pollution incidents.

47 Cliff Rescues

71 Medical Incidents

33 Investigations

63 Searches for missing people

18 Minor Incidents.

NCI part 2

A very enjoyable evening at the Sailing Club listening to how NCI Swanage has operated and will be operating this year.

There will be some hard work painting their lookout at Peveril (once the weather has improved). Still they have 40 + watch keepers to help as well as carry out their watch duties.

We look forward to working with them this year.

NCI

Tonight is the AGM of Swanage NCI (7pm) at Swanage sailing club.

Hopefully I will be attending to see what happens with our local NCI lookout based at Peveril Point.

More on this later.

Another Day

Just finished training tonight for our newer members of the team, tonight Coastguard forms and basic radio procedures.

Whilst not much is happening out on the coast, there is a lot of paper work being requested

Tonight I've been asked for the last 5 years worth of incidents!

So sorry this is short but there is just short of 500 incidents to go through.

A year on

It's hard to believe we have been in the new station a year now!

To mark the occasion the team and families came together for a breakfast roll and coffee.

This year Eric turned up (he missed the opening ceremony as he reckoned he was stuck in Ireland with the snow......we think he in fact got locked in that "famous Irish drink" factory)

Mud, mud glorious mud.

This afternoon's Patrol went out to Dancing Ledge to check gates and re-familiarise ourselves with the access tracks so that they can be covered at speed or at speed at night as required.

We stopped halfway and did the rest on foot so not to plough the farmer's fields up too much!









And then on return to station.....cleaning!

..from an iPhone.

Taking training seriously

Thursday night, training and a full set up of equipment for going over the cliff.

The picture above shows the cliff technician balancing with the standard cup of coffee, with Tom hanging on to the quad pod (its got 4 legs hence being called a quad!) just in case Brian should slip.

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Mobile Phones

In today's modern rescue service, a mobile phone is useful. Urgent updates back to the control room, photo's taken to assist in training or for passing to the bomb disposal teams.

Even when our pagers go off and its a team call out, I normally back the page up with a text message so the team know what they are about to get.

A mobile phone .......useful but not waterproof!

Waterproof ( and someone is bound to point out there is a phone on the market that is waterproof) I hear you ask? Did someone drop a phone off a cliff into the water, did someone walk along the pier and it fall out of a pocket?

If only the story was just that, fancy someone on holiday in the sun jumping into the swimming pool and then realising their phone is in their swimming trunk pocket.....priceless!

Land Slip

Visitors to the North end of the bay, will have noticed this large land slip near to the Pines Hotel.

It goes to show the effects of a slip and how man made objects are just smashed to bits as the ground moves.

Just a reminder that its best to stay off any land slip as quite often the ground is still moving and also being very wet the risk of get stuck is much greater.