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Gosport & Fareham Inshore Rescue Service Magazine
Issue 5 | Summer 2018
GAFIRS Lifeboat and ILB training with Coastguard Helicopter 175. Thanks to Andy Rundle for the brilliant picture
THREE PEOPLE IN WATER TROUBLE GAFIRS were paged to assist three separate people who had got into trouble in the water within 12 hours of each other. The first incident occurred on June 15 when a man left his yacht which had gone aground near Hardway and he attempted to get to shore in a canoe. Lifeboat crews recovered the man from the water, warmed him up and then safely returned him to the shore. While getting the casualty’s vessel back alongside at Hardway, GAFIRS was tasked again by UK Coastguard to assist
with a second person in the water near Portchester Castle. The man, who was in the water between Port Solent and Trafalgar Wharf, was helped to shore by lifeboat crews and placed in the care of the police, ambulance and Hill Head Coastguard Rescue Team. In the early hours of June 16, GAFIRS’ smaller ILB was paged to assist a person in the water in Workhouse Lake, Gosport. The man had become stuck after a night out, but the lifeboat crew was stood down before it reached the incident.
Man airlifted from luxury Solent Fort A SERIOUSLY ill man was evacuated from the luxury No Man’s Land Fort hotel by lifeboat crews. GAFIRS was paged to assist the diabetic 44-yearold man, who had become seriously ill and couldn’t be woken, at 4.34am on March 26. Volunteer crews, one of whom is a trained paramedic, boarded the fort to provide emergency treatment after being called to assist by UK Coastguard.
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