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Searching

To be honest, conditions for visual searching on Tuesday night were pretty poor. I've read various reports of how extreme the weather was online, some seemed realistic...others a bit over the top. Either way, chances of finding what you are looking for is drastically reduced. Luckily it is beginning...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-25-2009
Sleepless night

So, following on from a late night at the AGM, we were woken by our pagers at about 1.20am this morning and shortly afterwards launched the ALB to join a search under way in the Poole bay area looking for a group of people, believed to be Eastern European, who were thought to have jumped off the back...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-24-2009
There and back

So there was a quick shout this afternoon to head over to the other side of the bay to check on a kayak which had been reported to be in difficulty. As is quite often the case, it turned out that the boat wasn't actually in difficulty but had apparently been practising self-rescue techniques!Still...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-24-2009
That sinking feeling!

So the Mersey was out again yesterday, called this time to a small yacht which had been spotted adrift and seemingly unmanned.Sure enough there was no one aboard so we sorted that by putting Gav on.Un-accustomed to such burdens, the poor unfortunate vessel promptly sank!It would seem that the vessel...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-20-2009
The day of the Dragon

Powerboat racing is fast, exciting and not without it's fair share of danger. Today we were called out to assist with the rescue and recovery of the crew of one of the boats taking part in the Classic Cowes Torquay Cowes offshore race. It would seem that they had experienced a problem with their...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-29-2009
My afternoon...

Well, where do I start...we had two shouts today. The first was somewhere about a mile south of Anvil Point light and involved collecting a dinghy which had become filled with water and snapped it's painter. Please don't ask me why we were asked to deal with this 'emergency' as I really...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-21-2009
M'aidez

Pronounced 'May day', is a french term meaning 'Help me'. It is derived from the French verb 'aider' which means 'to help'. A mayday situation is one in which a vessel, aircraft, vehicle, or person is in grave and imminent danger and requires immediate assistance. In maritime...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2009
Then it went bang

was how the skipper of today's casualty described what had happened to his engine. He was right to be worried that this was followed by a large amount of black smoke too. So he did the correct thing, left the engine room hatch shut and called the coastguard. They called us which was how my bike ride...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-23-2009
Forgotten shout

In the rush to reach the weekend I completely forgot to add the details of last Friday's shout. The Alb was launched to got to the assistance of a 50' Fairline motor cruiser which thought they might have struck an underwater object and damaged their sterngear.Here is a copy of the report from...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-23-2009
PanPan

15 miles to the south of Anvil point light is an excellent crab fishing area. It is also roughly on a line between the Needles fairway and Guernsey. Consequently, in good weather, the area is liberally populated with both Dhan buoys (pot marker buoys) and yachts. Sadly the two don't go together that...

Posted to Lifeboat Scrapbook (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-04-2009

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