Become a Coastguard

The Coastguard service consists of people from the community, many with maritime interests, willing to give up their free time to train and be on stand-by to help others when the need arises.

Anyone who lives or works in the vicinity of a station and who is physically fit and aged between 18 and 50 can apply to join the Coastguard. Other requirements are reliability and the ability to work well in a team.

Training has a strong emphasis on safety and painstaking attention to detail in the use and maintenance of equipment and the need to reduce the risk to the rescuers to an absolute minimum.

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