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Winchman about to lift from Sheps Hollow yesterday

Run Forrest

During the incident on Swanage beach yesterday, the location of the male was unknown so we started a sweep of the beach to locate him.

Halfway down the sea front I met Rick, aka Forrest Gump, one of our beach wardens who said "...shall I run ahead.....?"

"Yes" I replied.

That was the last I saw of him, he just took off and showed the rather slow Station Officer up!

Should of sent him in the other direction, might have stood a chance.

The Figures

Its just taken 3 hours to finish the end of month returns for the team........

For August the team put in 413.5 hours

42 incidents

377 miles driven in the MRU

Thats 81 incidents between July and August

130 incidents for the year so far.

So if you see a Coastguard asleep on a bench somewhere, best leave them!!

Batman and Robin

Batman and Robin (Austen and Dee) have been out in the Bat-truck today and as of 14:00 picked up two jobs. Just to round things off they then went out on a training patrol.

Both jobs involved helicopters in one form or another. The second at 14:00 saw Rescue 106 deploy the winch man to pick up a chap who was taken ill at Sheps Hollow to the north of Swanage. Perhaps more on this job from Ian later.

Another busy day!

Lost anything?

The station had a clean and tidy on Friday, most clothing found a home however names were missing in a few items so we have started a lost property box.

Cant wait to find out who claims the red fairy wings!

Tea for Two?

Tom and Brian at the "Coastguard" beach hut on Shore Road yesterday.....my role was to make tea.

The hut had an excellent view of Punch and Judy so the pair were happy and were only upset when the steady stream of public enquiries came in and disrupted their viewing.

In fairness the team deserve a cup of tea, its been a busy couple of months.

Studland 5k Fun Run

Congratulations to Claire Thompson who, to quote the race commentator, was a '...very popular finsher' in today's race.

MCA News

A couple of news items from the main MCA web site...

1st a message from the Minister about the bank holiday.

http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga07-home/newsandpublications/press-releases.htm?id=BD267A9D24B20183&m=8&y=2010

Next comes a serious incident from Cornwall, very similar to the incident we had in Studland Bay where the owners of a boat fell out and didn't have a "kill cord". This incident involves a father and son who were hit by their boat twice.

http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga07-home/newsandpublications/press-releases.htm?id=2FE37F73B5005BF7&m=8&y=2010

If you are out this weekend and using a powered craft, please ensure your "kill cord" is fitted correctly.

More Info Here

1000th

Well what can be said that's special for the 1000th blog?

The blog was started to show the building of the new station, its gone on to promote the team and the Coastguard Service. Sometimes its funny, sometimes its serious, the English and spelling might not always be correct but we do our best to get our message across.

So to all our readers thank you.

Thank you to all our supporters, the Swanage lifeboat crew, Dorset Police, South Western Ambulance and Dorset Fire and Rescue Service who all work so hard to ensure the residents and visitors to Swanage remain safe.

This blog is dedicated to all those workers who often don't get noticed but this year have worked so hard in testing financial times.

999

999 ....No not the number to phone in an emergency, but this blog. Yup this is the 999th one which means the next one that Ian writes will be the best one yet...No pressure. Over to you Ian.


Meanwhile I've had a cracking time writing these blogs it's always hard choosing between a funny or serious message. Basically we try to give readers a insight into to highs and lows we experience as a coastguard rescue team. I hope it's entertaining or informative. Hopefully over next few months we'll get other team members to give their insight into what we do.

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