THE Whitehaven Coastguard team has been involved in a training exercise this week.
The team has been at the harbour in Whitehaven taking part in rope rescue exercises.
This type of training helps them when conducting rescues on places like cliffs, vessels, and other structures.
Other types of exercises that they do include water rescues, mud rescues, casualty evacuation, vessels in distress, lost and missing person searches, suspicious items (such as ordnance and pyrotechnics), and royal fish (such as whales, sturgeons, porpoises, and dolphins).
A spokesperson from the Whitehaven Coastguard Rescue Team said: "A lovely evening for some rope rescue training at Whitehaven.
"Aspiring rope rescue technicians connected into a system in a safe position at the bottom of a wall and were shown the various stretcher recovery methods that could be employed when the system is under load and recovering a casualty around various terrain obstacles on cliffs and marinas.
"Meanwhile, rope operators practiced holdfasts.
"HM Coastguard is responsible for the initiation and coordination of civil maritime search and rescue within the UK search and rescue region."
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