Guest Anonymous Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 WHERE ARE THEY DONUT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustaffa Donut Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Bobdahog will you wipe your chin and stop slavering and realise that with the perfect questioning, use of resources and IT systems available to busy coastguard stations that the casualty is home, safe and well having his tea. Did it happen too fast for you, is speed not a requirement at shetland. Is the golden hour something you do on your breaks? Question answered, you were made to look stupid now get over it bobdahog and move on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustaffa Donut Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 MR ANGRY WROTE Quote: You lot are really being impossible.! How? By trying to save one of our lifesaving blue light services? Mr Angry please get you facts right, there is no blue lights flashing in the Shetland Coastguard ops room and the coastal rescue teams with the blue lights will remain, co-ordination will be from Aberdeen until such point that they can appoint a coastal office as OIC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarf Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 A few years ago we got this over channel 16. A: "Big ferry off ma bow, big ferry off ma bow, this is the small blue fishing boat" Silence. A: "Big ferry off ma bow, big ferry off ma bow, this is the small blue fishing boat" More silence. A: "Big ferry off ma bow, big ferry off ma bow, this is the small blue fishing boat over by the island, I'm on your port forward quarter" B: "Is this April 1st or something?" C: "Look beuy, yer in Orkney, there's LOTS o ferries" A: "Aye, I'm the wee blue fishing boat, over by the shore an I can see a big ferry - I'm lost, can I follow you?!" Turned out he was heading for Buckie, got turned around in the fog in the Pentland Firth and had been going round and round Swona for hours. He had welding done on his wheelhouse so his compass was jinked and his GPS was broken too. The ferry escorted him into Scapa Flow, where we took over and showed him the way to the Hope. He had NO idea where he actually was, he thought he was in the Cromarty Firth and if he had called the CG that is where he would have had resources looking for him. I rely on Shetland Coastguard to task the correct resources to any incidents we have. I don't want the worry of "are they sending the correct stuff" when I have someone on my deck a fetching shade of blu tack blue with froth coming out their mouth. I don't want to do CPR on a casualty for 20 mins to find that the ambulance is somewhere else. I don't give a monkeys chuff if they are a quiet station or a busy one (would love to know how that is calculated btw is it purely number of jobs? Number of jobs per given sea area, number of hours spent on a job, number of resources tasked to a job? I can make statistics tell any lies I want.), what I want them to be is an efficient and knowledgable one which, as a regular user of their services, I can say they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 YOU STILL DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE, YOU HAVE RESCUED NOBODY, YOU ARE A INCOMPETENT FOOL. ACCEPT IT RESIGN YOUR POSITION AND SAVE THE PUBLIC PURSE FROM HAVING TO KEEP YOU, IN THESE STRAIGHTENED TIMES WE CAN NOT AFFORD FREE LOADERS LIKE YOUR GOOD SELF. IN FACT ON YOUR WAY HOME FROM YOUR LAST SHIFT STOP IN BY BOOTS FOR A FEW PACKS OF PARACETAMOL TAKE 2 EVERY HALF HOUR UNTIL THEY ARE ALL FINISHED. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brink Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 While I am all for a healthy debate, I am taken aback by some of the comments made on a public forum by those purporting to be representatives of Her Majesty's Coastguard. I can only assume there is no code of conduct for that agency, which is a shame, as, imho, the insulting and inflammatory remarks written here are ungentlemanly, unprofessional, and unbecoming to H.M. Coastguard as a whole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustaffa Donut Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Scarf your last comment worries me, you said you are a regular user of the coastguard. Does that mean you are a liability? Should you really be going to sea? If we charged people like you we could open more stations never mind closing some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustaffa Donut Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Brink thank you for that. I have been trying to explain that to these guys for sometime now that some of there comments are unacceptable. Cheers mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarf Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Scarf your last comment worries me, you said you are a regular user of the coastguard. Does that mean you are a liability? Should you really be going to sea? If we charged people like you we could open more stations never mind closing some. I deal with people who jump off a perfectly good boat for fun, and occasionally screw it up. You can never account for people injuring themselves while enjoying sports, it just so happens that when people hurt themselves doing this sport they need the coastguard. If a football player breaks his leg, do you feel the same way about them calling an ambulance to them? We have never had a fatality, and I have an award for bravery for putting my life at risk to save another person by jumping overboard and doing AV in the water for 10 mins, please don't assume anything about me being a "liability". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Angry Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 MR ANGRY WROTE Quote: You lot are really being impossible.! How? By trying to save one of our lifesaving blue light services? Mr Angry please get you facts right, there is no blue lights flashing in the Shetland Coastguard ops room and the coastal rescue teams with the blue lights will remain, co-ordination will be from Aberdeen until such point that they can appoint a coastal office as OIC. Mustaffa Donut So, are HM Coastguard a blue light service or not? I am sure they are, do you as MCA management not know this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustaffa Donut Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Scarf Quote'I want them to be is an efficient and knowledgable one which, as a regular user of their services, Unquote You said it in your later posting and i was just questioning in what context are you a regular user! No offence intended, and i apologise if you are very touchy regarding the subject. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Brink thank you for that. I have been trying to explain that to these guys for sometime now that some of there comments are unacceptable. Cheers mate For the record, I am not connected with H.M. Coastguard, nor is any family or friends. My comments are my own, and I like them. Put that in your whatever and smoke it. That said, cherry picking facts that suit your stance, and ignoring points and questions that would be "difficult", as per your form so far, is no less "unacceptable". I don't believe you have any connection with H.M. Coastguard either, with the debating style you've shown so far you must be a politician or lawyer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarf Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 No offence intended, and i apologise if you are very touchy regarding the subject. Well, after reading pages of world class trolling I have gone from a bit miffed to slightly cross but not really enough to get my knickers in a knot to be honest. I'm hardly touchy about it, just anxious that in a race to save money the service currently offered isn't compromised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muppet Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 While I am all for a healthy debate, I am taken aback by some of the comments made on a public forum by those purporting to be representatives of Her Majesty's Coastguard. I can only assume there is no code of conduct for that agency, which is a shame, as, imho, the insulting and inflammatory remarks written here are ungentlemanly, unprofessional, and unbecoming to H.M. Coastguard as a whole. Brink thank you for that. I have been trying to explain that to these guys for sometime now that some of there comments are unacceptable. Cheers mate You really couldn't make this stuff up could you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brink Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Thank you for understanding my point, Ghostrider and Muppet. For one horrible moment there, I thought I had dropped into a parallel universe! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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