mjcoon
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Nothing to do with forcible rescue (so far as I know) but next week's programme, according to Radio Times, has a segment on a "domestic" between Mr & Mrs Yottie...
Mike.
Mike.
Forcible rescue by the RNLI.
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Mark-1
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If I ever dared to anger SWMBO I'd need to be rescued by the emergency services also.
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Which was the point made in post #5, now expanded upon by Channel Yacht. However, in the SL@S instance there was no authorised rescue and the LB cox took it upon himself to insist the man entered the lifeboat, in the full knowledge that he had no legal power to do so. And good on him for doing so.
ShinyShoe
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Well in the SL@S episode - they contacted the CG for advice as was stated. We don't see / hear all of that discussion so we don't know exactly what happened.
**BUT**
The Cox insisted he enter the lifeboat...
...That was not forecable.
If you are stood on a bridge threatening to jump off and I grab you, that is forceable (we can argue if its legal or not). If I shout at you loudly and authoritively and tell you you have to get off the edge NOW, and you decide to follow my strongly put advice that is not forceable....
He got on the lifeboat of his own free will. He might have *thought* he didn't have a choice...
dom
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Saw this episode last night. The poor Romanian chap was sitting there, 4m offshore ‘sailing’ an ancient little yellow dinghy while wearing an old anorak to keep him warm and dry. The dinghy was just bobbing around with the sails aimlessly flapping and a few inches of water sloshing around inside.
The unfortunate sailor was either freezing, had lost it, or was suffering an illness. He made no eye contact with the ILB crew, just stared ahead as he flopped around in the choppy sea. Following a call to the Coastguard the ILB crew firmly asked him to come aboard the LB, which he reluctantly did of his own volition. The cox commented that the crew just couldn’t have it on their consciences to leave him to die.
I’d feel humbled and lucky to meet a group of such wonderful people if I ever lost it like that. Quite a moving and sensitive piece of film really and good to see a difficult issue like this openly aired.
The unfortunate sailor was either freezing, had lost it, or was suffering an illness. He made no eye contact with the ILB crew, just stared ahead as he flopped around in the choppy sea. Following a call to the Coastguard the ILB crew firmly asked him to come aboard the LB, which he reluctantly did of his own volition. The cox commented that the crew just couldn’t have it on their consciences to leave him to die.
I’d feel humbled and lucky to meet a group of such wonderful people if I ever lost it like that. Quite a moving and sensitive piece of film really and good to see a difficult issue like this openly aired.
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Mark-1
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To be fair, he had a yacht with him and an RNLI boat. Perhaps he didn't feel he could just sail off. I don't think you can take footage showing him not sailing as proof he can't sail. He'd sailed himself out of the harbour and 4 miles once he was out, after all.
Which isn't to say he didn't need help, of course.
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dom
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I’m not intending to criticise the sailor here, but from the footage it appeared he truly had no idea how to sail a dinghy - just being blown further and further offshore. He did of course have a yacht and an RNLI boat with him, but it was the yacht which called the CG to express concern for his safety, which in turn tasked the ILB to attend.
I guess my point here is simply that having seen the film; I thought the RNLI, the film-crew, the CG and the yacht all acted in a manner and took decisions which feel right with the benefit of hindsight - at least they do to me. I probably should have added AIMHO, or whatever that clever anacronym is!