Sunday 12 April 2009

Easter Day

We had a reasonably quiet Easter Sunday – Rockett and Kitching on Local Patrol. Two incidents the first a young diver lifted off a local dive boat with ‘The Bends’; and secondly a boat that had engine failure and had to be towed in. We were there purely to take details and make sure all was fine. Perhaps I’ll do a short blog on the bends i.e. decompression sickness DCS later this week.

Sadly during the patrol we heard that a chap had fallen over a cliff on the west edge of the sector. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7996447.stm Very sad to hear this type of thing over the radio; you sort of know from the intonation of the voices that there’s not going to be a happy ending. Tragic.

Meanwhile back at Old Harry we saw a couple having an Easter picnic on the edge of the cliff, looked nice and relaxed….Porkpies, sandwiches and crisps although it looked like they were also drinking wine. Not a crime in itself, but perhaps not best to have a glass right on the edge of the cliff; and I do mean legs hanging over! You do wonder sometimes.

What do you do? Have a friendly word? Probably best, prevention is better, but just as we were going to have a chat we were tasked to Swanage.

Still a nice day today, and i hear it will be sunny with a fresh wind in Swanage tomorrow. Well I know it will be sunny with a fresh wind as I am actually writing this Monday morning and backdating the post to yesterday. Happy Easter for yesterday...um I mean today.

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