T.V.L.B. Special Events Gallery
24th June 2007
Unique Marine Rescue Phootshoot
On Sunday 24th June 2007, Team members attended one of the largest gatherings of Coastal Rescue Emergency Services ever put together. All the units joined a group photograph to demonstrate the unity and team work between the different emergency services and also to show members of the public what resources are at hand should you require rescuing. The Units involved in the photograph were as follows:
The first image shows all the emergency services gathered together and is then followed by a selection of photographs of Brigade members preparing, participating and then relaxing after the photo shoot. (Apart from the first image, all photos are courtesy of and used with the permission of, Tynemouth 8).
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From left to right - North Tyneside Council Lifeguards with North Sea Volunteer Lifeguards, Tynemouth RNLI All-Weather Lifeboat, Cullercoats RNLI Inshore Lifeboat, Tynemouth RNLI Inshore Lifeboat, Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade Vehicle, Northumbria Police Boat, North East Ambulance Service Vehicle and Ambulance Technician/Brigade Blue Section Leader Richard, in front of Brigade Members Dan and Harvey (down the cliff) who are in front of helicopter and crew of Sea King 131 from R.A.F. Boulmer, Blyth Coastguard Team and vehicle, Fire Brigade Tender and Crew, North Tyneside Council rescue boat in front of Police Vehicle and then other members of Cullercoats RNLI Inshore Lifeboat and their Tractor behind two Red Seal Rescue Craft and two North Tyneside Council Lifeguard Personal Water Craft with Brigade Members on the Far Right! |
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Brigade members prepare for the photo
shoot as other units arrive in the background
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John, Paul and Alan bask in the Summer
Sunshine
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More Units arrive with Blyth Coastguard
Team members pictured on the ramp
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Two Cullercoats Lifeboatmen emerge
from the sea
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Tynemouth Lifeboat are the last of
the units to arrive - (needing the tide level to be just right so they
could fit in without scraping their bottom and not because they wanted
to be fashionably late!)
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Brigade members Dan and Harvey take
position down the Cliff
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Tynemouth Lifeboat were last to arrive
and first to leave once the main picture had been taken
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They are chased out by Cullercoats
Inshore Lifeboat and the Police Boat
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Meanwhile Red Seal Rescue and Council
Watercraft are less hasty to leave
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Dan and Harvey tidy up their cliff
lines after the photo shoot finished
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Rescue 131 sat on the boatfield looking
relaxed
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But the peace is soon interrupted
by the Blues Brothers (a.k.a. Norman and Paul!)
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Newly married Captain Michael remembers
how to smile for the camera
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Gordon in front of 131
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Captain Dave's turn to smile
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And now Alan takes position next
to the Helicopter
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A different Michael now next to the
'Copter
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After taking all the photos, Dave
finally gets his turn next to the helicopter
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Before the helicopter left there
was time for John and Peter to have one last shot together
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Before returning to normality a policeman
(tall) and Big John have a quick rest (on long-standing Brigade member
Brian!)
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