Falmouth Coastguard Rescue Team round-up rescues

In its end of the year review of what the team has been up to it says it has attended a real mixture of different incidents amounting to 161 ‘call outs’ including:

Just some of the incidents Falmouth Coastguard team have attended this year. Pictures Falmouth Coastguard Rescue Team

• Three rope rescue (technician deployed, person or animal recovered)

• 21Water Rescue (person assisted or rescued by SAR asset (lifeboat / aircraft / coastguard rescue team etc)

• 31 first aid / casualty evacuation

• 21 investigation (vessel adrift / lights on cliffs etc)
• 16 mud rescue (persons trapped / vessel aground, vulnerable occupants bought to shore or advice given to vessel happy to wait it out)

Just some of the incidents Falmouth Coastguard team have attended this year. Pictures Falmouth Coastguard Rescue Team

• 9 search (teams deployed to search for missing persons alongside police, mountain rescue etc)

• 50 ‘other’ (helicopter landing site, COVID related safety patrol, time expired pyrotechnics, Royal fish, operational support, assist partner agency and even a couple of road traffic collisions.

• Along with G7 2021, which saw the team deployed throughout the four days of the summit.

Posting on Facebook the team said: "As ever, we couldn’t do this without the support of our families and employers! So a massive thanks to all those that enable us to do what we do!

Just some of the incidents Falmouth Coastguard team have attended this year. Pictures Falmouth Coastguard Rescue Team

"We wish all of our followers a happy and healthy 2022

"If you spot anyone in danger on the coast, 999 and ask for coastguard."