Success for Last Weekend’s Inland Waters Safety Awareness Course in Hayle
Last weekend (7th – 8th December) SLSGB and supported by South West Water held a weekend training course for inland waters awareness with the intention of setting up an Flood Rescue Team . The course, organised by Surf Life Saving Cornwall and delivered by Adrian Mayhew, was attended by over 20 candidates which was a wonderful response to the course.
Adrian delivered presentations on hydrology, river dynamics along with safety procedures to follow around inland waters. He also provided video scenarios on events that had gone wrong, which then led into groups discussing how similar problems could happen. Later in the afternoon everyone got involved in how to use public rescue equipment and Throw Lines with a practical session on the beach.
At the end of the day everyone came away with a Level one Water Awareness Award which they can now train in their own clubs.
Nigel Bowden Chairman of SLS Cornwall “This is a fantastic chance to build a great team within Cornwall, just look around the room and sitting here we have Police Officer, Firemen, Paramedics, Coastguard and Lifesaver who already work together on our beaches and want to up skill and help their community’s”
On the second day everyone came back to set up a plan to start building the team, which was the main issue of the day. It was decided that each interested club would work to build up the resources, but the overall responsibility would sit with Surf Life Saving Cornwall as this could pull all the clubs together and become a larger resource and pull in team members from each club.
Surf Life Saving Cornwall would like to thank Hayle SLSC for the use of their clubhouse for the event and their members help with the photo shoot.
