Our volunteers were called out to Brean beach at 5.45pm to assist Coastguards in the search for a missing child. Our team of 20 is often deployed during searches like this to quickly boost numbers on the ground and saturate a large area. Fortunately, as our...
Our volunteers were called out to Brean beach for a second time of the day, at 7.29pm, when the beach warden reported a car was stuck in soft sand at the top of the beach. Our crew used spades and waffle boards to free the...
Our team was called out by Brean’s beach warden at 12.49pm to assist the driver of a Ford Fiesta car whose vehicle had become stuck on a footpath in soft sand. The driver, who was unfamiliar with the area, had become disoriented overnight and found...
Our team was tasked to Brean beach at 4.08pm to assist Burnham Coastguards after concerns were raised by the beach warden about three children wading through mud. The warden had spotted the three girls a long distance down the beach with a fast incoming tide nearby...
BARB’s volunteers were tasked with assisting Burnham and Weston Coastguards when three people were reported to be potentially stranded in kayaks on the north side of Brean Down. BARB’s hovercrafts were driven by road from Burnham to Uphill beach and then launched from the sands to...
BARB's hovercrafts were called out at 5.19pm by Coastguards to help two persons attempting to reach the sea at low tide on Berrow beach. They had been seen by a beach walker heading out past the Berrow shipwreck and through soft sand and mud to try...
BARB was called out at 12.07pm to reports of a dolphin stranded on the beach at Brean. After consulting with HM Coastguard and Brean’s beachwarden, BARB sent several of its trained Marine Mammal Medics to the beach. A beach walker had come across a two-metre long dolphin...
BARB crew was called out at 12.56pm today to a car stranded on the beach at Brean. A small group of our volunteers quickly freed the vehicle using spades and other equipment....
BARB’s crews were called out by HM Coastguard at 12.53pm to help with a medical evacuation on Brean Down. The team headed to Brean Down where a walker had slipped on wet ground and suffered a suspected broken leg. The BARB team were quickly on scene to...
A team of marine mammal medics from Burnham’s BARB Search & Rescue was called to a dolphin stranded on Sand Bay beach near Weston this morning. The six foot common dolphin had washed up on the high tide and was stranded several hundred metres from the...