Juan Twothree

Pedantic alert. "--- HAVE been ---" for God's sake.

I don’t accept the selfish card. If and it’s a big IF this was a tragic suicide, then some poor soul has found themselves in a situation...

It often falls upon me to collect petrol for our lifeboat station. The RNLI provides us with a small metal trailer, which we are...

Depends on water temperature. I do a lot of body recoveries and ours vary between 2 days and 3 to 4 weeks in winter when the waters are...

So what prompted the RNLI to contact him? Did he call the coastguard, who then tasked the RNLI?

I checked directly with the CG ops room before replying, and I have no reason to disbelieve them. The alert is received by Fareham...

The protocol is that SAR assets should be tasked within five minutes of the initial alert being received. Any PLB activation is treated...

Radiobeacon to the rescue for man overboard ‘in a flash’

Depends on your definition of Dumped. Not sure I would want to use the Oxford dictionary definition to describe the actions of the...

Assuming the owner is onboard, we make it clear that they are responsible for where and how their boat is moored. On more than one...

I fear part of the challenge here is that when the lifeboat rescues a boat they do not have a default location to tie it up to, and rely...

No, there have always been unaware people. Years ago when I was flying I was doing the pre lift checks with the rotors unpitched but at...

Same coming back over the Atlantic. If its cold and they speak Norwegian, turn south. If its warm and they speak Spanish, turn...

Which is fine all the time it is working. I've been on a couple of lifeboat jobs this year where a plotter has conked out. On one of...

Round here they are just after lunch. Simple folk on the East coast.