POCOMAR’s season starts as soon as they can get out on the waters. The calls go into October and November.
“If we’ve had a relatively calm summer, we have a relatively low search and rescue operation count,” he said. “If the weather is blustery a lot and the waves are high, we tend to have more calls.”
“People need to wear a life-jacket when they go (out),” said Dashwood, adding that “A hundred per cent of the times that we don’t recover somebody, it’s because they weren’t wearing their life-jacket.”
