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Offline SteveH

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Re: Air / Sea Rescue/ RNLI/Coastguard.
« Reply #180 on: April 09, 2019, 01:37:44 pm »
THE season has been launched for Llandudno lifeboat visitor centre by a fund raising group from Liverpool.

The volunteer group which raised £50,000 for the RNLI last year, were delighted to be taken around the new Llandudno station and see its two lifeboats.

“The team volunteers are now preparing for the 2019 Spring and Summer season with the next open event being on Sunday April 14. The team members have repeatedly been complimented on their knowledge and hospitality and have consistently received excellent feedback.

The centre will be open between 1.00pm and 4.00pm on: Sunday April 14, Tuesday April 16, Wednesday April 17, Thursday April 18, Good Friday April 19, Saturday April 20, Easter Sunday April 21, Monday April 22, Tuesday April 23, Wednesday April 24, Thursday April 25, Sunday April 28, Saturday May 4 (Bank Holiday Weekend), Sunday May 5 and Monday May 6.

Additionally, the RNLI Shop in the town centre is also looking forward to another busy season with opening times 10.00am until 5.00pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and Wednesdays from 10.00am until 4.00pm
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Re: Air / Sea Rescue
« Reply #181 on: April 09, 2019, 04:30:26 pm »
Thanks for the information Steve, somewhere to take the Grandsons when they come to stay at Easter  $thanx$





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Re: Air / Sea Rescue/ RNLI/Coastguard./ Mountain Rescue
« Reply #182 on: May 14, 2019, 06:27:17 pm »
Apart from the rescue, I thought this was an exceptional photo............

Dramatic Snowdonia rescue footage shows how helicopter plucked injured climber to safety
The man suffered serious head injuries after plunging 20ft from Glyder Fawr ridge

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/dramatic-snowdonia-rescue-footage-shows-16272277

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« Reply #183 on: May 20, 2019, 02:30:09 pm »
Although this looks bad, I think this sailor was very lucky.......

These amazing images show a 25ft yacht which became marooned on a rock with two people on board sparking a rescue operation.
The vessel became trapped during falling tide as it visited the rocky island of Skerries, in Anglesey at around 1.50pm yesterday (May 19).

All ended well.
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/rescue-operation-launched-after-25ft-16301839

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« Reply #184 on: May 20, 2019, 02:48:27 pm »
There's always one...
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.  ― Michel de Montaigne

Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes.

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Re: Air / Sea Rescue
« Reply #185 on: May 20, 2019, 06:23:57 pm »
There's always one...

At least he wasn't sat behind a computer screen criticising some body who is out there enjoying the great outdoors

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« Reply #186 on: May 20, 2019, 08:27:04 pm »
Really? It seems a pity that the skipper hadn't consulted charts, done the most basic prep, used sonar or even bothered to take a sounding, resulting in other people having to risk their own safety to mount a rescue.
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Re: Air / Sea Rescue / RNLI / Coastguard
« Reply #187 on: June 04, 2019, 02:36:46 pm »
Date for the diary

THE second annual lifeboat day in Conwy will put on show the skills of the town’s RNLI volunteers to the public.

Starting at 12.00pm and lasting until 9.00pm, the event will feature a number of demonstrations including raft building on the quay followed by a raft race, and the inshore lifeboat conducting exercise rescues.

Food stalls and a licensed bar are planned for the quayside and the crowds will be entertained with live music.

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The Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer is the French equivalent of our RNLI, and would be difficult to tell them apart.


Solidarité avec nos collègues sauveteurs Français

Today we gathered at 10:30 am for a minutes silence for the three members of the Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer French Sea Rescue Service that sadly lost their lives last week 7th June 2019.

https://www.thelocal.fr/20190607/three-dead-and-one-missing-as-storm-miguel-strikes-western-france

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« Reply #189 on: July 01, 2019, 09:45:50 am »
Two people rescued after getting trapped on breakwater at Rhos-on-Sea harbour
A rescue operation was launched after the man and woman became stranded by the tide, at 9pm last night.
The pair were taken on board the lifeboat and brought safely back to shore.     

(One comment suggested the pair were going up Snowden, next weekend, in plimsoles and shorts ?)

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« Reply #190 on: July 01, 2019, 11:16:38 am »
Why bother to waist all that effort time and money to rescue a pair of idiots who's lives were not in danger. as there was no chance of the tide level reaching the top of the breakwater. Perhaps if they had to spend the night out there waiting for the next low water, it might just have given them time to reflect on the stupidity of there actions.  ))*
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Re: Air / Sea Rescue
« Reply #191 on: July 01, 2019, 01:51:25 pm »
Another couple of rescues to add to the above........

IN THE last few days five people have been found in danger of being cut off from the incoming tide.
Llandudno Coastguard received a report on Thursday, June 27 to people cut off at West Shore.

A 30 FEET long yacht in difficulties off the Great Orme was rescued by Llandudno’s all weather lifeboat.
Holyhead Coastguards called out the lifeboat, the William F Yates, following a distress signal from the yacht, which was lying three miles north of the Great Orme, at 7.36 pm on Sunday June 30.

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« Reply #192 on: July 01, 2019, 03:24:18 pm »
We saw a couple and their dog strolling along towards Pen from West shore. What I don't really understand is how they can't be aware of how water behaves. They must know water always finds the lowest point, that estuaries flood, that tides are always different levels - most of it is simple common sense. I can understand daft behaviour - barely - from those who live hundred of miles from the sea, but I don't think anywhere in the UK is more than 50 miles from it.

Boats can and do run into problems.  We were sailing from Arran to Tarbert off the W coast of Scotland when we lost an engine immediately prior to entering the Tarbert Loch, which has a very narrow entrance. That was caused by a fuel blockage on the line - just something that happens.
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Re: Air / Sea Rescue
« Reply #193 on: July 01, 2019, 03:57:58 pm »
I googled furthest from the sea out of curiosity... :D
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« Reply #194 on: July 01, 2019, 04:17:08 pm »
Boats can and do run into problems.  We were sailing from Arran to Tarbert off the W coast of Scotland when we lost an engine immediately prior to entering the Tarbert Loch, which has a very narrow entrance. That was caused by a fuel blockage on the line - just something that happens..

When I see stories of Yachts in trouble it takes me back a few years, I was in Spain, with some friends, we were just outside a marina fishing, when I noticed an incoming boat with the name "Illegal Alien " we all thought, what a stupid name, about the same time, police cars arrive on the dock, and the Guardia Civil marine boat returns from patrol, it was later when we were talking to the crew of the boat, it all fell into place, they a developed a serious leak, and the boat was in danger of sinking,  so they radioed for assistance to the Spanish authorities...... now explain your dilemma, and the name of your boat,   :-[   in a foreign language and see what type of reception you get.