OPERATIONS MANAGER

The training has been very successful. We have been able to customise the training that we normally offer RNLI students and make it appropriate to the environment and the HRT volunteers. ‘They’re already a rescue service in their own right. But they operate mainly on single-engine vessels so we had to get them familiar with the twin-engined Atlantic 75. We
also worked on some of the more complex drills the RNLI use, such as veering down, where you anchor the vessel and reverse into an inaccessible space, and towing, which they think they’ll be doing a lot of with the boats coming over from Turkey. We also covered search patterns and rough weather handling.’