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Rhossili
Mobile:
Rhossili and Oxwich
both have a Toyota Hilux, which is a 4x4 vehicle. Most Coastguard rescue
teams require a 4x4 vehicle due to the rough terrain that it has to cover.
Rhossili Mobile has both cliff and search & rescue equipment on board
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Oxwich
Mobile:
Oxwich mobile
is another Coastguard team that is situated just a few miles away from
Rhossili, which is also a search and rescue, cliff team. If Rhossili has
a callout that requires more people then we will call upon Oxwich for
back up or if Oxwich need more people for a call out then they will call
upon us for back up. |
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Loughor
Mobile:
Loughor Mobile
has a team compliment of 6 persons and is a enhanced search and rescue,
mud team that is situated by the Loughor Estery. |
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Horton
IRLB:
Horton Inshore
Rescue Lifeboat is probably the service that we call for most often at
Rhossili and they usually assist us in such incidents as searching for
missing persons that may be in the water or rescuing people that become
stranded on The Worms Head or even helping surfers that have been pulled
out too far by the tide. |
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Burry
Port IRLB:
Burry Port Inshore
Rescue Lifeboat isn't a service that we often call upon that often as
it is further away than Horton IRLB, but when it is called it is usually
either for a major search where there is the need for more people or rescueing
people that have been cut off by the tide on Burry Holms or they may help
to look for people lost at sea. |
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Mumbles
All Weather Lifeboat:
Mumbles all weather
lifeboat only assists Rhossili Coastguards if there is a major emergency
such as a missing persons in the water or a vessel that is in trouble,
and if Rhossili do need a lifeboat we generally call for Horton IRLB.
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Helimed:
Helimed is an ambulance
helicopter that has two paramedics on board as well as the pilot and is
capable of taking one casualty to hospital at any one time. Helimed is
especially good for landing in difficult terrain as it is smaller than
the Sea King helicopter and it can land in smaller areas, as we have seen
in many different instances. The best advantage for us with Helimed is
that around the Gower Coast it is very difficult for regular ambulances
to get to these areas but with Helimed it doesn't have this problem as
it will land more or less any where it can.
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Sea
King:
The Sea King helicopter
is a service that is called upon a lot by Rhossili Coastguards as they
can assist us in so many ways from aiding us to look for missing persons
and the removal of casualties from the cliff face. The Sea King is a RAF
helicopter from Chivenor and there are three helicopters that can be called
on and they are named Sea King 169, 170 and 171 depending on what order
they took off in. |
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Police
Helicopter (WO99):
The police helicopter
can only be called by the police and it usually assists us in a search
where the police are involved and it is especially effective at night
as it has Leo thermal imaging/video camera system on board that is very
useful to find a persons body heat, which is so powerful that on one particular
callout it found a portable barbeque that had been buried under the sand
on the beach that had been out for a few hours. |
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Bomb
Squad:
We usually have
to call the bomb squad around two or three times a year due to world war
two shells that are continually uncovered by the tide on to a North Gower
beach, most of the shells are dormant but there are still a few live ones
that they safely detonate on the beach. The Royal Navy's bomb disposal
vehicle is shown opposite.
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