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May 2022

21 May

Posted at 22:42h in News

BARB CALL-OUT #08: Saturday May 21st. Our volunteers were called out by HM Coastguard at 7.40pm this evening to reports of two people in potential difficulty in mud on Burnham beach towards the lower lighthouse. After the team confirmed the location using binoculars, both our hovercrafts were...

21 May

Posted at 22:40h in News

Our volunteers were called out by HM Coastguard at 10.38pm on Monday May 16th to assist in the search for a missing person. The team assembled at our seafront station before assisting Coastguard teams from Burnham and Weston alongside Avon & Somerset Police with foot searches...

18 May

Posted at 18:42h in News

BARB’s crew was called to Weston beach today to assist a bomb disposal team investigate a possible ordnance device found in the mud. A Royal Navy bomb disposal team from Plymouth, Weston Coastguard and the BARB hovercraft team were called to the beach north of Weston...