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Aboard the £2.5 million life-saving vessel
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21/06/2024
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We've had the Shannon for about three years now on station and previously had a
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Trent class lifeboat. The difference being is that the Shannon class is
00:08
driven by water jets. It's massively more manoeuvrable than any of the other life
00:14
boats in the fleet. You can literally walk it sideways, you can spin on a six
00:20
pence, the stopping ability, it's got great towing ability as well so it's a
00:27
fantastic all-round boat, do almost anything you want it to. It's just under
00:31
two and a half million pounds per boat for the Shannons. We have a crew of five
00:36
or six on the Shannon. Everyone has a seat and every seat has a role assigned
00:40
to it so in there you'll have the helmsman who's driving the boat, radar
00:45
operator, mechanic, coxswain and navigator plus a number six seat for the sixth
00:50
crew member. The coxswain won't normally drive the boat when it's at sea, he'll
00:56
take it off the berth and he'll do what we need to do when we get on scene to
01:01
take casualty in tow or take some people off a boat or do a search but you
01:06
normally have a helmsman driving the boat, the coxswain will be in the command seat so
01:09
everyone is involved, everyone's got a job to do all the time. I've been at the
01:13
station now for six years. My role was gradually evolving through the time
01:18
that I've been here. I started off just as crew and then on navigation.
01:23
Navigation is quite a key role on the boat. You've got an open sea out there
01:28
which is not really open. You've got lots of rules to follow. We do have a rules of
01:34
the road just the same as the highway code and out there there's sets of
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voyage. All these buoys have a meaning. They can tell you to keep on one side or
01:44
the other side. They could be restricted for certain vessels. You've got to be on
01:50
the right-hand side of the road as part of instead of the left-hand side of the
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road. Now that's one big change. It's a big learning curve. It's quite immense.
01:59
It's one of the hardest roles to learn because there's just so much to
02:03
memorize but anyone can do it. You don't need to have any maritime experience to
02:10
take this on. You just start one step at a time.
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