Searush
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/8163344.stm
Puts a new slant on "must always wear your PFD" discussions.
Puts a new slant on "must always wear your PFD" discussions.
Lifejacket found not wearing fisherman
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BurnitBlue
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Now seafarers have been urged to report missing equipment to avoid unnecessary call-outs.
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So when will the lifeboat resume call-outs? I certainly hope no-one falls overboard, on the same day a fisherman reports his missing flotation suit.
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So when will the lifeboat resume call-outs? I certainly hope no-one falls overboard, on the same day a fisherman reports his missing flotation suit.
Dipper
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My view exactly. I would hope that they would still investigate the report of a body in case it isn't the lost equipment. Also, recovering the lost suit would prevent further unnecessary call-outs.
Twister_Ken
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Both RNLI and HMCG seem desperate for news coverage, which often results in stories being put out while the brain(?) behind them is still in neutral. This is a classic example.
ChrisE
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So presumably if we lose a baseball cap overboard we've got to notify the RNLI so they don't waste their time looking for a person underneath it....
TK, I agree RNLI-bolux at its best.
TK, I agree RNLI-bolux at its best.
cliffordpope
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"reports of a body in the sea, only for it to turn out to be a missing flotation suit."
That suggests that the floating suit was, at a distance, mistakenly thought to be a body.
That's totally different from finding an empty suit and assuming that there must somewhere be a body that was inside it.
So what are they suggesting should happen?
Someone sees something floating in the distance, which could perhaps be a body. But then they get a report of a missing flotation suit, so they assume that must be it, so they don't bother investigating. They leave it for someone else to find, who has perhaps not heard the report.
What happens when someone else reports seeing the suit later? Do they do a tally of Number of suits found minus Number of suits reported lost minus Number of bodies found to date = Number of bodies still to search for?
That suggests that the floating suit was, at a distance, mistakenly thought to be a body.
That's totally different from finding an empty suit and assuming that there must somewhere be a body that was inside it.
So what are they suggesting should happen?
Someone sees something floating in the distance, which could perhaps be a body. But then they get a report of a missing flotation suit, so they assume that must be it, so they don't bother investigating. They leave it for someone else to find, who has perhaps not heard the report.
What happens when someone else reports seeing the suit later? Do they do a tally of Number of suits found minus Number of suits reported lost minus Number of bodies found to date = Number of bodies still to search for?