Registered Charity No 500045 
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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; Walney Island and Morecambe Bay. 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 beat efforts of all concerned, life has been lost. |
