An open day will be held in Burnham-On-Sea on Saturday (April 5th) for residents to see BARB’s two new life-saving rescue hovercrafts.
The public open day will be held from 11am-3pm at the BARB station on Burnham seafront for visitors to find out more about the new crafts and meet some of its volunteers plus find out about volunteering opportunities.
Two of the new crafts were formally launched in March, as we reported here, in time for the start of the new tourist season and a third will follow later in the summer.
The new high-specification hovercrafts are IH-6 Ivanoff hovercrafts, the same as those used by the Swedish Coastguard and border force agencies.
Caroline Hall, the mother of five year-old Lelaina Hall who tragically died after getting stuck in mud on Berrow Beach in 2002, was present at the naming ceremony last month to name the new hovercraft, Spirit Of Lelaina III. Lelaina’s sister, Elizabeth, was also on hand to name the second craft, Light Of Elizabeth III, continuing the positive life-saving legacy that came out of the tragedy.
