Off Topic The Burly Arms

Sorry to hear that.

 

or the sky

 

Prefer the sky, less things to eat you.

 

Fewer.


What won the photo thing mate?

 

Fosses pencil eye drawing

 

So the RNLI have properly ****ed up this time. One of the richest charities in the U.K. and despite an offer of financial help from the council they still decided not to pay for lifeguard cover. Lifeguards have been warning for weeks that without cover there will be deaths and so it started yesterday.

On the back of that they’ve now announced 30% cover for the summer period, which means loads of beaches will still have no cover.

One of those is my local beach, which is notorious for strong rip currents. It was ****ing mental down there yesterday with loads of families all rocking up for a jolly and going in the sea, which was running spring tides with a 6ft swell. So I’m down there today volunteering with some of the usual trained lifeguards who are also volunteering , just to offer some kind of service.

 

Just trying to understand this. How often do RNLI lifeboats go out to rescue? Is it an every day event when conditions are bad?

And is it the RNLI that provide the lifeguards on shore? If not, I would've thought the lifeguards on the beach would be marshalling the public from going out into dangerous sections of the sea and the RNLI lifeboats are only needed for the rare circumstances someone has gone out and found themselves in a spot of trouble.

 

Lifeboats are operating, for some very strange reason they are not putting lifeguards on the beaches.

Local beaches to me you'd have a couple of lifeguards sat there. It's absolutely piss easy to be 2m apart and they are not at risk of anything at all. You could surmise that they might catch something from someone they have to rescue but then they are also at risk in the water so i don't get the ultra caution? Having to potentially give mouth to mouth? Just give heart massage then.

There is risk everywhere in day to day life, the continued fear of a virus is astounding. Anyone in the current at risk vulnerable category won't be at the beach or going for a surf, surely?

Or are we to not have beach safety until the virus has gone away forever?

 

... or space

 

... or limit mouth to mouth to fit birds ...

 

Didn't two folk die down there yesterday?

 

We're all in space Fosse.

 

Maintained space or discretionary space?

 

This is one of mine.

We had something like 1% profit margin in there and our steel frame contractor went bust during it, so we ended up doing this building and ramp for a £50k loss.

The RNLI throughout were tight as ****, ridiculously contractual and didn't give an inch, despite having a £500k gift from a benefactor. They're the most cash rich charity out there.

The lifeboat stations they have are spec'd up to ****, copper roofs and all sorts of **** (this one is zinc & welsh slate roof).

Despite all that, loved this project. The ramp was a proper civils project in the Severn estuary. 18m tidal range, not exactly straightforward.

 

'Space' space... the final frontier. Hurtling through it at 30km a second

 

Why would you volunteer?

Aint you got nothing better to do bruv?

 

Lifeboats only go out when they get a shout from the Coastguard, which is the first contact from a 999 call. If the lifeboat is launched then things have already gone tits up as it means somebody's life is in danger. The lifeguards are employed by the RNLI and do more preventative work, so yes they marshal the beach with red and yellow flags for swimming, black and white for surfing or red flag which means nobody goes in. Lifeguards will also use the Jet ski to rescue swimmers/surfers who have got into trouble.

 

Yup, teenage girl drowned after getting stuck under a capsized RIB and another man drowned near Padstow.

Another one in hospital in a serious condition.

All likely preventable deaths if there had been lifeguard cover.

 

Cheers dude, so is the real problem the number of lifeguards on beaches to prevent folk going out in the water during dodgy conditions? If they have minimal staff maybe focus on that first and foremost.

Coincidentally just seen the Chief Exec of the RNLI on the news saying they've written to the government to keep beaches closed but he understands the horse may have already bolted on that one and they are apparently ramping up provision on the beaches.