The Princess Royal visits NCI Shoreham and meets many of the volunteer watchkeepers

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00:00So obviously when Princess Aang comes in, she'll be coming up to the station here, meeting

00:24the watch keepers on watch at the moment.

00:27They'll be looking out for small ships, kite boarders, anything that can be a danger.

00:35We'll show her the area that we can survey, show her the CCTV of the area from Brighton

00:45to Worthing and make sure that everybody's safe basically and she'll have a chat obviously

00:54to the watch keepers.

00:57There's Dennis, he's our founder member here, so he'll have a word with her and obviously

01:06she'll have a word with him.

01:10Obviously we've got CCTV, radar, we've got 6 marine radios and a computer with AIS on

01:22the weather station, so it's a lot to...

01:26Yeah, it's quite rough at the moment isn't it?

01:29Yes, it's, what's it now, it's a full 6 to Aaroners, which, what do you want?

01:47Yeah.

01:48Is your new, well, newish camera, that does great help doesn't it?

01:52Oh, it's, well yes, Craig would tell you when we had an incident over towards Lansing, we

02:02couldn't see them because of the fault, the hump in the fault, but now we've got the camera

02:08above that, it can look down onto Lansing Beach and we saw them coming out of the water,

02:16so it was great, and shortly it will be linked to the Southern Coast Guard, which will be

02:25a great help to them, and any search and rescue.

02:29Yeah, we're still controlling it, so they'll have to tell us what to look out for.

03:46Royal Alliance, ladies and gentlemen, it's my privilege as NCI Chair to welcome you on

04:04behalf of Volunteer Watchkeepers, our partners and our supporters to NCI Shore.

04:09It's a visit marks the 16th year of NCI Shore working to help our search and rescue partners

04:15save lives along the coast, and you've heard how active the station is in particularly

04:20spotting leisure users who get into distressed paddleboards, and in its history the station's

04:26been involved in 274 search and rescue incidents, initiating 154 of those rescues.

04:35So we are extremely grateful to you Royal Alliance for your continued time and commitment to NCI.

04:41This is your seventh visit to an NCI station in this, our 30th anniversary year.

04:47The visit has always been a source of enormous encouragement and motivation to our volunteers,

04:52and we appreciate your time with us today and hope you've had an informative and enjoyable visit.

04:57Thank you, Matt.

05:05You want more or less?

05:07No, I'll do another five minutes.

05:08Oh, very good.

05:11Well done, thank you.

05:13And also five years service, Craig Sewell.

05:30I'm delighted to have the opportunity to visit as many of the NCIs as I can,

05:35as you can see that's becoming a bit of a challenge.

05:38As you may also notice the weather can be more of a challenge.

05:42Anyway, it's a pleasure to see you.

05:44Thank you so much.

05:46Thank you very much.