As a result of COVID-19 safety protocols our RNLI Community Safety Team is currently unable to deploy to deliver face2face water safety messaging and drowning prevention advice sessions. We have recently witnessed a significant increase in the number of visitors to UK beaches and coastline coupled with a reduced number Read more…
Thanet’s RNLI Community Safety Team are making waves with this year’s Royal Lifesaving Societies Drowning Prevention Week campaign The Thanet RNLI Community Safety Team will be taking part in a UK and Ireland-wide effort, when it takes part in Drowning Prevention Week 2020, in a bid to help families stay Read more…
Stay At Home – Protect The NHS – Save Lives Many apologies for the delay in writing another blog post, but some of our team are key workers and have been pretty busy in their day job working to help protect the public from COVID-19. We hope that everyone is Read more…
RNLI Community Safety Team Help Spread Drowning Prevention Message With School Pupils On Monday (9th March) one of our team supported the RNLI Education Presentation Team at the ‘Safety In Action’ event at Dreamland organised by Salus. Incase you haven’t come across ‘Safety In Action’ it is an immersive event Read more…
Be Weather Aware During Stormy Weather Dodging waves during sunny and calm weather can be great fun. However, on a stormy day just 15cm of water can knock you off your feet quite easily. What seems like fabulous fun to dodge waves that crash over harbour walls or onto a Read more…
Anglers – Do You Plan Your Fishing Trips? 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 Read more…
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…
