Bay Search and Rescue Team
A team of unpaid volunteers who combine specialist training and local knowledge to provide support for H.M. Coastguard, Mountain Rescue Teams and other Emergency Services on and around Morecambe Bay. Operational Team members take part in regular training and assessment and are prepared to respond to emergency calls subject to work and family commitments. Most team members live on the Cartmel Peninsula but some work outside the local area. Currently the Team is drawn from Levens, Milnthorpe, Cartmel, Grange over Sands, Kents Bank, Allithwaite and Flookburgh. Our aim is to have enough trained personnel for the team to be available 24/7 throughout the year.
Training takes place on a minimum of one evening and one full day each month but usually there is something going on every week! The training syllabus includes vehicle driving and maintenance, radio usage, command and control procedure, casualty care, water rescue, powerboat handling, marine and land search and rescue techniques, quicksand rescue, working with other teams and working with helicopters. All members are required to update their training and competences regularly.
Operational Team
Gary
Parsons
Station Officer/Chairman/Trustee,
Senior (paediatric) Operating
Department Practitioner. (Royal
Liverpool Childrens Hospital),
(Team Leader Anaesthetics)
UK Resuscitation Council Approved,
(Advanced Life Support Provider),
Adult And Paediatric basic
life support instructor, Nvq3
Certificate of Higher Education
Operating Department Practise,
Level two RYA off shore powerboat
cert, RYA Yacht Masters Navigation
(shore Based) Hagglund driver, VHF Certificate,
Water Rescue Awareness.
Gary is one of the founder
members of the
team and the team Medic. He
works at The Royal Liverpool Children's
Hospital (Alderhey). He teaches
emergency anaesthesia and resuscitation,
and participates in the hospital
crash team. He served with HM
Coastguard Arnside for 6 years
prior to founding the 'Bay Search & Rescue
Team'. He has been decorated
twice with awards for conduct
above & beyond
the call of duty by the Liverpool
Shipwreck & Humane
Society, and by the Chief Coast
Guard, as part of the
team who rescued a man stuck
in Quicksand, whilst the tide
came in round their waists, and
his neck in 1996.
Paul
Calland
Deputy Station Officer/Treasurer/Trustee, Hagglund
driver, Team IT Manager, Public
Relations, RYA Powerboat level
2, First Aider, Water Rescue
Awareness.
Paul is the Managing
Director of a local design and print company
and with a long background in business and
computers acts as the team treasurer
and handles the teams print,
website and IT requirements. He has
worked in the MOD in mllitary vehicle
design and is an experienced off
road driver. A Queen Scout Award
holder he spent many years as a Scout
leader including time in the USA teaching American
Scouts survival training, canoeing,
caving and white water rafting.
Mike
Davis
Training Officer, Hagglund
driver, RYA Powerboat level 2, VHF Certificate,
First Aider, Water Rescue Awareness.
Mike is
the manager of a local company
and lives in Allithwaite. As
well as being a very active team
member he is also very
involved in the Scouts at District
level so often away camping and
canoeing. Apart from Gary he
is the longest serving member
of the team and has served on
the board of Trustees for the
charity, so his experience is
essential to the team. Mike received
the Scout
Association Award for Bravery
for his part in our operations
in Cockermouth in 2009.
Ben
Jinks
Operational Team Member/ SWRT/Trustee, Hagglund
driver, RYA Powerboat level 2,
VHF Certificate, First Aider, Swift Water Rescue
Technician, Water Rescue Awareness.
Ben
works for a plant company driving
all sorts of plant equipment
and machinery. Although one of
the younger members of our team
and the youngest trustee, he
is very enthusiastic and heads
up our swiftwater rescue roles
and team training. With his plant
equipment experience he is taking
a hands on role with the operation
and maintenance of our fleet
of rescue vehicles and specifically
the Hagglund bv206 ATERV's.
James
Burrows
Operational Team Member/SWRT, Hagglund
driver, RYA Powerboat level 2,
VHF Certificate, First Aider,
Water Rescue Awareness. Swift
Water Rescue Technician.
James
works in his family carpet business
and is the teams strongest swimmer
(can do a length of the local
training pool, underwater WITH
a bouyancy aid on!)
Mark Jameson
Operational Team Member,
Powerboat
Level 1, First Aider, Off road driving
certificate, off road trailer certificate,
work at height trained. Amateur
radio and comms specialist.
Mark works
at Lancaster University in communications and
IT, keen watersports and motorsports enthusiast
(has made his own catamaran and runs
a caterham sports car),
Faris 'Faz' Ali
Operational Team Member/SWRT, Numerous work at height qualifications & training courses; Advanced Industrial Climber, High Structure Rescue & Evac, IPAF Licence, Full Radio Licence, First Aider, Offroad driving certificate, electrical safety. Swiftwater Rescue Technician. Faz works at Lancaster University in as a Network Specialist. Vast Radio and electronics experience.
Martyn Fogg
Operational Team Member/SWRT
- Junior,
Our youngest
team member.
Martyn is still a student, but this
has not stopped him working his
way up to Swiftwater Rescue Technician
accreditation now he has been with
the team for a while.
Colin Hodgson
Operational Team Member - Probationary, VHF Certificate, RYA off-shore safety, RYA First Aid, RYA Safety Boat Operator, RYA/MCA Yachtmaster (shore based), RYA/MCA Small Craft Basic Sea Survival. Colin has many years experience working in team and management training all around the world so brings loads of experience to the team
Dave Abel
Operational Team Member/SWRT
- Probationary,
Swiftwater Rescue
Technician,
One of our newer team members
and based in Milnthorpe,
Dave is an
experienced boat Handler and a Qualified
Diver.
Paul Astle
Operational Team Member
- Probationary, VHF
Certificate. High structure rescue
and advanced industrial climbing,
Ladder inspection and PPE inspection,
IPAF powered access, First aid
at work HSE certificate, Off road
driving. Currently an active Special
Police
Officer in Lancashire.
Jamie Warren
Operational Team Member
- Probationary,
Full time Height
Safety and Rescue Trainer, qualified
first aid trainer and rescue trainer.
Health and Safety certified through
NEBOSH.
Swiftwater Rescue experience. Experienced
in surfing, white water rafting
and kayaking.
Helen Clark
Operational Team Member
- Probationary, IOEH Health
and Safety, First Aid At Work Certificate.
Leader in the Scout movement for
many years, involved with outdoor
survival, training and camping.
A lover
of extreme sport Helen has recently
taken up kite surfing, off road
driving and wind surfing. Training
for the Great North Swim in September
2010.
Kev
Wright
Operational Team Member
- Probationary,
Full time Height Safety and Rescue
Trainer, qualified first aid trainer
and rescue trainer. Health and Safety
certified through NEBOSH. Ex-Paramedic
with nearly 20 years experience in
Ambulance Service. Keen walker, climber
and cyclist in his spare time.
Norman
Pritchard
Operational Team Member
- Probationary,
An HGV Class 1 driver, responsible
for deploying our hagglunds and airboat
inland when required.
Support Team
Paul Handslip
Team Mechanic, Paul is responsible for overseeing the servicing and maintenance of our Airboat, Hagglunds and Landrovers.
Richard Roberts
Trustee, Richard
is a Director at Gedye & Sons
(Solicitors) in Grange-over-Sands
and as well as his obvious exemplary
legal expertise, has extensive
experience in charity work.
Bev Marrow
Secretary, Reponsible for taking minutes at all our operational and trustee meetings amongst other things, as well as helping with vital fundraising. Bev also works at Gedye & Sons in Grange-over-Sands
Other Support/Fundraising Team members:
Many and varied
but our thanks go to:
Alan and
Jill Parsons, Diane Blood, Sue Calland,
Mandy Parsons, Steph Park, Emma,
other long suffering spouses, girlfriends,
family and friends
and especially Louie Parsons...
for
his efforts at the Cumbria Steam
Gathering 2009!
Please also see some of our benefactors
and sponsors on our links page
