cruel sea Penlee lifeboat

[subaqua]

this day 1981. I was a 9 yr old boy and woke up on 20th to the horrendous news

still makes me shiver today.

The cox'n knew they were unlilely to come back, hence only one guy from each family being selected. not one of them said " no way skipper, we are not going out tonight" that is bravery.


8pm tonight the lights go off in my house for an hour ..

 

[byegad]

I remember it well.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The bravest of the brave

 

[chriswoody]

I remember Penlee well and the significance it had to me growing up in Ilfracombe on the North Devon coast.
We would always would stop what we were doing when the Maroons went up and hope the crews would come home safe.

 

[Drago]

I remember the news, and there was a documentary on telly not long back. Brave guys.

 

[ianrauk]

I hadn't heard about this but had a bit of a google.

A sad story indeed.

 

[subaqua]

I remember the news, and there was a documentary on telly not long back. Brave guys.

its the documentary linked to in my OP

 

[classic33]

The bravest of the brave

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MoO4WfSMOpg

 

[swansonj]

I'd be interested in the views of those here with mountain rescue experience.

When you scan incident reports from mountain rescue teams, it is not unheard of to read that a search was called off overnight, because the risk of harm to MR personnel in atrocious weather outweighed the chances of finding the missing persons in that same atrocious weather. In other words, in MR, the philosophy "we will always go out no matter how much the odds seem stacked against us" seems, in the most extreme and marginal situations, to have been replaced by a more managerial, calculated approach.

Needless to say, all personnel, MR or lifeboat, have my unstinting admiration.

 

[Salty seadog]

that such folks exist is ...well...

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I still find it inconceivable that both RNLI & MR are both charity funded in in the main run by volunteers my admiration goes out to both of them.

 

[PK99]

this day 1981. I was a 9 yr old boy and woke up on 20th to the horrendous news

still makes me shiver today.

The cox'n knew they were unlilely to come back, hence only one guy from each family being selected. not one of them said " no way skipper, we are not going out tonight" that is bravery.


8pm tonight the lights go off in my house for an hour ..

Thank you for posting that. Just watched it all the way through - very moving story of very impressive people

 

[Fnaar]

I have huge respect and admiration for lifeboat and mountain rescue peeps

 

[subaqua]

I have huge respect and admiration for lifeboat and mountain rescue peeps

especially when people do utter wuckfittery like this https://www.grough.co.uk/magazine/2...-plucked-from-crib-goch-by-rescue-helicopter#

I dont like this bit of Snowdon on a bright sunny day , let alone in December when the snow has been lying for weeks.

I quote from the article “The walker was above the snow line and not properly equipped for the weather or the terrain.”

 

[classic33]

It's become too easy to "get out there", with the expectation that help is just a phonecall away should things go wrong.