Registered Charity No 500045  We are currently looking for some people aged 18 plus to come and join our team of dedicated volunteers at Askam in Furness. If interested please call in at the boathouse we are there most Monday evenings from 7pm until 9pm.  
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Our PolicyDuddon Inshore Rescue is a voluntary organisation with profesional aspirations, dedicated to fostering the safety of individuals by providing and maintaining an effective search and rescue operation for assistance to anyone or anything in peril from the sea in the area of the Duddon estuary and Walney waters in the county of Cumbria.  BackgroundDuddon estuary is tidal, with dangerous currents and undertows: an area which can be treacherous, as can be proved by the many fatal accidents and near miss incidents over the years. Following the drowning of a number of local people in the estuary during 1969, a public meeting was held in Askam-in-Furness, Cumbria in November of that year, when the decision was taken to start a rescue service which could be efficient and well formed, Its area of operation would cover the Duddon estuary; Roanhead sand dunes and nature reserve and the North end of Walney island.
Since that time it has been involved in over 400 incidents on or around the treacherous waters of the Duddon estuary; some of these have been frustrating, others mundane; some heart-warming, where lives have been saved; others tragic where, in spite of the best efforts of all concerned, life has been lost. |
