UK Coast Guard

[double_barrel]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

inflatables are routinely sent to Davy Jones locker to prevent further callouts and searches when someone else reports them.

While sailing, I once picked up a large inflatable armchair in the middle of the Irish Sea. After some hesitation I decided I should report to the CG on the off chance that it might be significant. That was one of the strangest radio exchanges I have ever had.

[Georg1na]

Urban myth/total rubbish/full of factual errors

It is not actually. It happened to me in the 1960s at Culdrose SAR flying Whirlwind 7s.........................so there!

[[email protected]]

And our quality press are still recycling the story.......

[Cornish Jack]

Many moons ago an episode of the Beeb's News Quiz programme contained an item read by the incomparable, delicious Charlotte Green. It was from a local paper in the Kent region and went something like this -."A bather was recently rescued from an inflatable cigar, being blown out to sea, by another bather in an inflatable set of false teeth! The local Coastguard said "It happens all the time!" Charlotte, bless her, for once, managed to avoid 'corpsing'