{"id":47498,"date":"2014-09-11T13:59:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T13:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5c65bad8891fe6ee0345df481a5025fe"},"modified":"2014-09-11T13:59:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T13:59:46","slug":"press-release-lucky-escape-for-rib-trio-off-anglesey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=47498","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Lucky escape for RIB trio off Anglesey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The incident has underlined the need to use a kill-cord \u2013 the device that is attached to a <abbr title=\"rigid inflatable boat\">RIB<\/abbr> driver and immediately shuts down the motor when the wearer moves away, or is thrown, from the cockpit. In the past, deaths and horrific injuries have been caused by the propellers of high-powered, out-of-control boats to people who have fallen out.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the occupants managed to avoid the circling <abbr title=\"rigid inflatable boat\">RIB<\/abbr> and swim to nearby rocks at Rosneigr Beach. They were picked up by a boat and taken to the shore unscathed; the <abbr title=\"rigid inflatable boat\">RIB<\/abbr> was quickly brought under control. The <abbr title=\"rigid inflatable boat\">RIB<\/abbr>\u2019s occupants told Holyhead Coastguard, who were alerted at 12.30pm on Thursday 11 September 2014 by the local surf shop, that the driver had removed the kill-cord to inspect a deflated buoyancy chamber and they had been thrown out of the craft when the throttle had been activated. <\/p>\n<p>Duty Watch Manager at Holyhead Coastguard, Barry Priddis, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis incident might have had a far more tragic conclusion and the occupants of the <abbr title=\"rigid inflatable boat\">RIB<\/abbr> had a very lucky escape. Kill-cords should be worn at all times, regardless of whether a boat is stationary or under way. All too often Coastguards deal with sometimes horrendous incidents where a kill-cord is removed only temporarily.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_1507\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Maritime and Coastguard Agency press office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              023 8032 9401\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 people and their dog had a lucky escape off Anglesey when they were thrown from a RIB which then circled them at high speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}