Meet and greet is a common term in Coastguard to refer to meeting the lifeboat towing a broken down boat in. The role of the Coastguard is to then discuss what has happened and discuss safety issues.
This morning at 00.04 the team were tasked to meet a small vessel with 2 people on board who had broken down off Peveril. Swanage ILB had preformed their duties to the usual high standard and has the boat in tow and alongside the boat park jetties in no time.
Our role was to discuss the lack of safety equipment, no VHF, no life jackets, no flares just a mobile phone and so on.
I hope our message got through, the pair were lucky that their mobile phone worked, has they gone around the back of Durlston they would have had no signal, what would have happened then?
At the start of the boating season, we urge all boat owners to review their safety equipment, breakdowns happen but please ensure you have the relevant equipment to save your lives in an emergency and don't rely just on a mobile phone.
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