Originally Posted by
Vie sans frontieres
I hope you're not expecting an answer. As soon as you ask anything resembling a searching question to the current UK civvy SAR fraternity the shutters come down and a form of Omerta comes into play. ... ...
Yes. The Coasties branch of MI6 in play again. Hard work. And not conducive to good team work.
Originally Posted by
Vie sans frontieres
... ... I guess night wets must be a piece of p1ss. What else don't they practise I wonder?
I think that we need to cut them some slack over such issues. Not too much slack but a measured amount from April 2015 and at least until all final Inverness crews have done a few jobs.
The reason I say that is because even though CivSAR has been in the UK since 1971 it is only in April 2015 that a contract becomes operational which has a full appropriate range of technical requirements (including a low light requirement).