Crewman Paul Gibson set himself a challenge earlier this year along with friends Peter Wilkinson, Ian Sutton and Brian Hansen to tackle the county’s Total Warier event in Shap. The group today (04/08/2018) set off early this morning to prepare for the obsticles that were set out in front of them, with only one thing […]

The event will also include children’s entertainment, superhero’s will be around the area, face painting, Birds of Prey demonstrations and a children’s fair. The emergency Services will be on the harbour showcasing their equipment and demonstrating what they do. We have a birds of Prey display and more. Including the Fire service, Coastguard, Lifeboat and […]

Last night while Crosby Coffee Morning were on a station visit some of the crew and trainees launched the ERB and a raft to run some training. Training involved paddling the raft, access to different features with the raft, man over board, capsize and recovery. With the ERB our Emergency Rescue Boat for floodwater, inland […]

Yesterday some of our crew took the opportunity to carry out paddle training with 2 of our rescue sleds.  These are designed to be used in our switch water operations and being able to ogle them effectively and read the water correctly is paramount.  3 of our trainee crew were trained on hydrology in the […]