{"id":1618,"date":"2013-07-09T19:41:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T18:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shetlandcanoeclub.co.uk\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2013-07-09T19:41:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T18:41:11","slug":"lerwick-lifeboat-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shetlandcanoeclub.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/07\/09\/lerwick-lifeboat-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Lerwick Lifeboat exercise &#8211; a successful evening afloat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1619\" title=\"DSCF1182\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shetlandcanoeclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSCF1182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;\"><span>Monday evening saw the planned\u00a0exercise with the Lerwick Lifeboat kick off in Gulberwick bay. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;\"><span>Club members started running the first scenario, a heart attack victim, while the lifeboat made it&#8217;s way out from the harbour. After less than five minutes, the lifeboat flew across the mouth of the bay and the rafted paddlers (with victim) \u00a0could see help was well on it&#8217;s way! Watching the bow approaching at speed was quite a sight. \u00a0The small boat was dropped over the side and the recovery of various victims ensued. It must rate as one of the most accident-prone trips ever conducted in Shetland by the club with heart problems, dislocated shoulders, lone paddlers in difficulties, swimmers and exhaustion-overcome bodies appearing as if from no-where. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;\"><span>No problems for the lifeboat crew, each scenario dealt with with calm professionalism.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;\"><span>By this point conditions had gone from a bit blustery up to &#8220;interesting&#8221; as the wind came up, it was almost 8.45pm \u00a0and paddlers started to head back to dry land. Once ashore there was the odd tired individual, a lot of discussion, and a bit of a buzz from all those involved. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;\"><span>General consensus &#8211; a great learning exercise for the club.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;\"><span>A big thank you must go to all the members of the \u00a0Lerwick Lifeboat crew, and to Iain Derbyshire for arranging the evening.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday evening saw the planned\u00a0exercise with the Lerwick Lifeboat kick off in Gulberwick bay. Club members started running the first scenario, a heart attack victim, while the lifeboat made it&#8217;s way out from the harbour. After less than five minutes, the lifeboat flew across the mouth of the bay and the rafted paddlers (with victim) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,32],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching-report","tag-9","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shetlandcanoeclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shetlandcanoeclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shetlandcanoeclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shetlandcanoeclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shetlandcanoeclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shetlandcanoeclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shetlandcanoeclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shetlandcanoeclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shetlandcanoeclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}