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Open Day - Sunday
20th June |
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About 300
people visited the lifeboat station
during the day
and watched launch and recovery
demonstrations and short displays by
the lifeboats including a man
overboard exercise using "Fred" the
dummy. There were children's
activities, RNLI souvenir sales and Chichester Harbour
Conservancy had a display where a
representative from the harbour office
was please to tell visitors about
all the activities organised by CHC.
Visitors were able to look around the
Operations Room of the lifeboat
station and the museum which displayed
the history of the RNLI on Hayling
Island. |
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During
the last demonstration of the day the
lifeboats had to disappear quickly to
help a man who had fallen out of his
dinghy. Fortunately he managed to get
to the shore before the lifeboats
reached him but on their way back to
the station they were tasked off to
the north end of the island to assist
the Coastguard’s helicopter “India Juliett” to search for a possible
person in the water after a dinghy had
been found on the shore. After a
comprehensive search, when no one was
found, the lifeboats returned to the
station making 32 call-outs to date. |
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Man over
board exercise - the lifeboat crew on
the D Class lifeboat put the dummy in
the water and the crew in the Atlantic
75 B Class lifeboat picked the dummy out of the water. The
dummy is the same weight as an average
man. |
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