Ian 20 Up!

To celebrate 20 years here's some photos of 'Boy Wonder' aka Station Officer Ian Brown.

Sausages anyone?

He does Pizza Delivery in his spare time..like he has spare time!

"Hands off my chopper!"

A serious training session

StreetHawk

Open night mike at the station.....Have you heard the one about the Vicar and the...

Why is he laughing, no explanation yet given

This photo was originally cropped to take out the bench and make him look tall.

20:23 Meringues '...don't mind if i do!)

22:47 Burgers

03:47am Biscuits

New Truck

He even appears in people's loos...see left

Nice Hat!

Grumpy chops

Co-ordinating stuff

Ian and his better (taller) half Rachael.

Team Swanage (taken by Ian)

Walking the walk with Mr B

Leading by example.....

Incidents

Incidents..
2005 saw 117 incidents
2006 saw 122 incidents
2007 saw 115 incidents
2008 saw 118 incidents
2009 saw 112 incidentsAs of today we currently stand at 150 incidents.A whopping 34% increase on last year !! (…and there’s still the best part of three months to go!)
19:28 09/10/010 ##addendum....we've had another 2 incidents since this blog, so its 36%!##

20 not out

Well done to Ian, Station Officer, "the boss" for chalking up 20 years' coastguard service yesterday, and how fitting that he should undertake the landmark 150th job of the year.

As we've said before, 2010 has been our busiest year ever and looking back through the records, this time last year on Ian's 19th anniversary he was assisting in only our 97th job of 2009.

We didn't have a shout on Ian's 18th anniversary, he was probably having a rest.

Ian at the opening of the new station in 2009 - well done chap!

7th October

The 7th of October..........a difficult day for me, on one hand it should be a special day as its the anniversary of me starting in the Coastguard but its over shadowed by the loss of Spike one of the team six years ago.

This year it is my 20th year of service so it is special, we started with a visit to Dumpton School Wimborne (where lifeboat blog is a teacher so you can see why we were invited!)
Several school groups later, several bacon sandwiches later and a smashing lunch, it was back to Swanage and a visit to the cemetery and remember Spike.

Just as I was putting the MRU away in the station, the air ambulance was circling the station looking for somewhere to landing, finding it in Days Park I then took the two paramedics to the incident they were sent to.

50p for the Meter?

To ensure a reliable radio reception all over our patch, the coastguard has a VHF repeater aerial high on the hills overlooking Swanage.

Today, Portland Co-ordination Centre noticed a fault light on their indicator panel suggesting the repeater wasn't working properly. Whilst this wasn't an immediate problem it could hamper communications during an emergency, so the team were sent to check out the fault.

It seems the main power supply was down, but fortunately the back up generator had burst into life as intended and was maintaining the service. As the team couldn't find 50p for the meter, the information was relayed to Portland and a man with a screwdriver was called in to try to remedy the fault.

Eric looking for the fault.....

....and then writing a 'To Do' list before his Golfing Weekend.

Training

Training night tonight, and I wonder what the boss has in store for us.

If we're lucky we may watch another chapter of the Water Rescue DVD; however if we're not we may have to watch two or three chapters or even more....

News Reports

Its interesting how incidents get reported by the press, you can rescue two people from a 100 ft cliff and get no reports in the papers, but rescue a dog and its big news !

Our colleagues down in Tamar had a good job

http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga07-home/newsandpublications/press-releases.htm?id=4D8528226D4D4014&m=10&y=2010

Two for one

Yesterday's incident at Anvil Point was difficult as there were two climbers stuck on a ledge. Thankfully neither were injured so it was a case of lowering our Technician over the cliff (Austen the DSO) secure one climber, bring them up and then do it all over again.

Working at Anvil is tricky for us as we have to work so far away from the cliff edge to enable us to get our stakes in the ground (the holdfasts/anchors we attach all the equipment too). We don't have any visuals with the cliff top safety officers so have to rely on hand signal relayed by other team members and the radio. Due to the distance the ropes stretch quite a bit which again has its challenges

Anyway well done to Austen for the double lift, it was nice to preform a rescue without the helicopter (no offence but when you practise and practise its good for the team to perform the rescue, no need for the helicopter where no one is injured).

Rescue

A quick shot of Brian post rescue. A difficult job this afternoon, more later.

Brian looking dead hard.

Maybe, just maybe we shall use this instead of his 'camp' photo on the main site.

(feel free to remind yourself how camp his photo is at
http://www.dtnetnt.net/swanagecoastguard.org.uk/
click on team at the top then Brian.)

"..is it on the wonk?"

Ian and Oz with our new flagpole. More on this topic when they can get it up.

By the way Oz is not fat, its his fleece...he just wanted this pointing out. It's not a big deal but he wanted the record putting straight. If he was fat, which he is not, then this would only be due to the pole being thin, making him look fat. I hope we have sorted that out.


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