Posted by WIZZO on November 29, 2014 at 05:09:20 from (86.165.232.52):
In Reply to: Life Boats posted by wile E on November 29, 2014 at 04:55:48:
They can be maintained inside a warm dry building. The crew are on board as it starts to slide down the slipway, engines running for immediate power as it hits the water. Plus they can launch in almost any extreme weather & tide conditions.
In some areas the modern life boats are too large to fit inside the older buildings, and they are left just off shore in calm and protected harbours.
They are there as rapid response to boats in trouble at sea. The Royal National Life Boat Institute is a public funded body - ALL money is raised by donations by the public, NO government grant nor support. All the crew members are volunteers with full time jobs locally. The alarm is raised and they drive at speed to launch the life boat. Several 100 lives are saved every year by them.
We have the Coast Guard here, patrolling the coastline in larger boats, mainly to check out ocean going boats and smugglers of illegal drugs & immigrants into remote bays.
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