Can I make an emergency call on my mobile phone if I don’t have a signal? Whilst chatting at one of our team’s highly popular Coastal Dog Safety stands a dog owner asked us…”If I don’t have a mobile phone signal how can I call the Coastguard on the beach?” Read more…
It’s Walk Your Dog Month! Incase you weren’t aware January is Walk Your Dog Month and what better way to kick start your New Years Resolutions by getting out in the great outdoors and walking off some of that festive food and drink? With obvious health benefits for both you Read more…
DARKER NIGHTS – BE AWARE WHEN WALKING CLOSE TO WATER I hope that you are making the most of that extra hour in bed after the clocks went back marking the end of BST (British Summer Time). Of course that extra hour in bed in the morning results in the Read more…
HM Coastguard Operation’s Centre’s around the UK are staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Ready to take ‘999’ emergency calls or Mayday radio calls from someone who needs help at the coast or at sea urgently. There is no doubt it’s a highly Read more…
The drier weather made a very welcome return on Sunday (20th October) helping to swell visitors to Thanet’s beaches. Our Community Safety team took advantage of the increase in coastal visitors by visiting Dumpton Gap and Ramsgate beaches to help share the coastal safety messages to dog walkers. As well Read more…
ARE YOU WINTER WATER SAFETY AWARE? Enjoying a walk or run with family, friends and or your beloved dog can be such great fun during Winter time. Having some knowledge on how to stay safe whilst out and about during winter will enable you to have a great time. Lakes, Read more…
Angling is one of the most popular hobbies and sports enjoyed by a wide cross section of the community and at all age ranges. Between 2011-2015, 50 anglers tragically lost their lives while fishing around the UK coastline*. Sadly, expert evidence from Professor Mike Tipton of Portsmouth University (2012) suggests Read more…
Surfing Surfing is one of the most popular board sports invented, with a reported 20 million surfers across the world with the number on the increase. Every surfer has her/his own reasons for taking up the sport, however, the mixture of physical exercise, increase in wellbeing and mental health; being Read more…
Open Water Swimming in lakes, rivers and at the sea has really taken off in the last few years and it is one of the largest growing sports in the UK. Swimmers tell us that it can significantly boost their mental wellbeing, fitness levels, mood, it’s highly invigorating, improves circulation Read more…
On Monday (16th September) HM Coastguard Margate were tasked by the UK Coastguard along with RNLI Margate Inshore Lifeboat to reports of a person in the water by the Lido, Cliftonville. Arriving on scene Coastguard officers spotted an object in the water and once the lifeboat arrived it was quickly Read more…
