Archive images showing that drivers are still ignoring the signs that warn of tides affecting the causeway
At 14.41hr on Saturday 29th October 2016, UK Coastguard requested the launch of Seahouses Inshore Lifeboat, to assist three persons cut off by the tide in a car on Holy Island Causeway. High tide today was 14.56hr at Seahouses, making this incident well outside of the safe crossing times.
Photo credit:
The photo is of The Bob Newbon involved in the rescue of the Ponus in 1916 kindly lent from Brian Osborne’s ‘Images of the Past’ Collection.
Saturday 22 October 2016 – Sunday 13 November
Opening this weekend, Hope in the Great War tells the story of six heroic RNLI rescues, including the story of 3 November 1916 when the Falmouth lifeboat crew and service men rescued 20 people from the tanker Ponus.
On 21 November, Captain Radhika Menon, Master of the oil tanker Sampurna Swarajya, will be at the annual IMO Bravery Awards Ceremony. (Photos available on request.)
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Coast Guard awarded General Dynamics Mission Systems a $125.6 million follow-on contract to provide Rescue 21 program management, system support and maintenance and sustainment engineering support for the U.S. Coast Guard Command, Control, and Communications Engineering Center.
Bittium conducts the first VoLTE call in Public Safety LTE band 14 environment
Oulu, Finland, October 12, 2016 – Bittium conducted the first ever Voice over LTE (VoLTE) call on the Public Safety Band 14 LTE Network.
First aid could be revolutionised forever thanks to a new anti-choking device that will replace the Heimlich Manoeuvre, according to leading Irish First Aid provider Harry Knott.
The Association of Air Ambulances (AAA), which represents the majority of air ambulance operations in the UK, is delighted to announce that Air Ambulance Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Health and Social Care Trust have both joined the Association as full members.
Inshore lifeboat George Bearman launched at 7pm on 11 October to a man in the water, discovered by off-duty Exmouth Beach Rescue volunteers, as daylight was fading.