Our volunteers were called out by HM Coastguard at 12.17pm to assist a person stranded in mud on Weston beach alongside Burnham Coastguard Rescue Team and Weston-Super-Mare Coastguard Rescue Team. Our hovercraft crews were en route to Weston when we received the welcome news that the...
BARB CALL-OUT #13: Monday July 13th. An early start for our volunteers, who were called out by HM Coastguard at 2.17am to assist a person stranded in mud on Weston beach alongside Burnham Coastguard Rescue Team and Weston-Super-Mare Coastguard Rescue Team. Our hovercraft crews were en route...
Our volunteers were called out by HM Coastguard at 11.47pm to assist in the search for a missing person in Brean. Our search teams and one of our hovercraft gathered in Brean where we received inital search area information from Coastguards. Our hovercraft was...
Our volunteers were called out by HM Coastguard at 3.42pm this afternoon to reports of a person stuck in knee-deep mud on Burnham beach near the Pavilion. As the person was fully stuck in a large area of mud and very soft sand with a rapidly...
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...
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...
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...
BARB CALL-OUT #04: April 15. Our volunteers were called out at 4pm due to concern for a woman stuck in mud on Burnham beach. As our team gathered at our station alongside Burnham Coastguard Rescue Team in readiness to launch our hovercraft, the positive news came through...
Our volunteers were called away from their Valentine’s Day evenings at 8.41pm to search for a missing person alongside Burnham Coastguard Rescue Team, Weston-Super-Mare Coastguard Rescue Team and Avon and Somerset Police. Both our hovercrafts were quickly launched on Burnham beach to carry out a search...
BARB’s crews were called out at 8.36am to search for a missing person alongside Burnham Coastguard Rescue Team and RNLI Lifeboats at Burnham-on-Sea. Fortunately, the person was safely found as our crew arrived at the BARB station and were stood down. A good outcome....