In testament to the
RNLI, staff at the
RNLI Headquarters in Poole regularly carry out their own fund raising events. Last Friday a
Swimathon was organised by Brett Shepherd. Brett is running the London Marathon this year and thought a
Swimathon would be a good way of involving others in his fund
raising efforts. Willing (I use the term loosely) staff volunteers took to the freezing cold survival pool. Not being a heated facility a variety of swimming kit was adorned, including wetsuits, dry suits and
Speedo’s! The target of 26 miles had been set and 31 people rose to the challenge.
The picture shows Bob
Bradfield, who is a member of Poole Coastguard and works here at the
RNLI and managed 50 lengths in a dry suit. Our very own John
Deas also took part, topping the table with a 106 lengths.
In total the team swam over 30 miles raising more than £1000. A great effort by all who took part.
On a separate note I look forward to seeing our local Coastguards in their smart new vehicles! Further details can be found on their blog,
http://swanagecoastguard.blogspot.com/
8 comments:
Hi John
Hope your sailing trip went well, enjoyed reading your guest blog entries, did you have snow in Swanage? we did in the midlands didnt stay long, new series seaside rescue started sunday, very interesting and gives viewers a good insight in to your invaluable work
take care
joan
Our subsequent debrief seemed to show that we had mostly treated the right things and done enough to keep the casualties alive! Indeed all of the staff seemed pleased with the relatively low level of skill fade shown across the crew. That's not so say that there wasn't stuff that we'd forgotten, however, we seemed to have remembered a great deal more and were more confident than after previous courses.
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Our second Coxswain Robert had brought a Severn class lifeboat from Poole containing the full 1st aid training team from Poole, Howard Ramm and three casualties. In the course of our exercise we were tasked to attend this 'casualty' which had experienced an explosion onboard. The ILB got there first and tied up alongside allowing one person to attend each casualty.
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Wow, that was strange. I just wrote a really long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn't show up. Grrrr... well, I'm not writing all that over again. Anyways, just wanted to say fantastic blog!
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