Sunday 31st August, Mountain Rescue Training Excercise

Todays training exercise was held jointly with Bay Search and Rescue team http://www.baysearchandrescue.org.uk/ on the sand banks in Morecambe Bay near Humphrey Head. We were looking for a group of missing people from a party on the Head the previous evening. Our task was to locate and recover the missing people and treat any injuries.

Our excercise casualties were from the Casuality Union http://www.casualtiesunion.org.uk/ in Barrow who did a great job in testing our medical and shepherding skills after we found them the exercise.



Some of the casualties were evacuated using their tracked Hagglund vehicle others were walked back to safety.


After the excercise we had the opportunity to cross part of the sand banks and sea channels using the vehicle and had a lot of fun discovering some of its capabilities.