Maritime Volunteer Service #2

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Maritime Volunteer Service

To begin with, special thanks to my Kazakhtechno guru for getting me back in action. Some of us are finding it more difficult than others to come to terms with the computer revolution.

I have amassed a range of photographs to put onto the blog – and now that I have actually got here, I have to decide whether to add them in the haphazard way they ocurred, or in some sort of theme. I decided on the theme as it is the best way of dealing with my cluttered mind and lifestyle. With special thanks to various members of the Merriman family for keeping me on some sort of reasonable path in life!

So, to the Maritime Volunteer Service, or MVS as it is more commonly referred to. A motley bunch, made up from ex-service people and those who have always had a hankering for the sea and boats. I have been a member of the Swansea Unit for a number of years, and by national standards we seem to be quite a successful unit. Our main purpose is to develop and promote maritime skills. Further than this, we provide a service to our local maritime community by providing safety boats at various events. It is hoped that we can develop more useful links with the emergency services to assist in search and rescue operations. In recent years we have been involved in several incidents, two being successful, in one instance recovering a drunk from the River Tawe who had decided to take a short cut from a bridge en route home. Pulling someone aboard with a broken femur is not funny, even if he was suitably anaethetised. The other, more rewarding was pulling a distressed labrador from flood water. He was very grateful, and all crew members were thoroughly licked in thanks. On the other hand, we have pulled bodies from the water. Unfortunately Swansea does seem to have quite a record of river suicides and accidents. Although we do not yet operate a 24 hour call-out system, we do seem to have an uncanny knack of being on the scene – sometimes even before the emergency services (but they will not thank me for saying that).

The first photo I have included is a bit unfair.At the Pembroke Sea Rally last year I passed Carol my digital camera, a Minolta Dimage 7 at the time. One of the particular features of this piece of kit is the exceptionally long delay between pressing the shutter release and the shutter actually operating. I was asked to do the commentary for the public, so I passed the camera to my long-suffering partner, Carol, and said “just keep shooting” – which she dutifully did, and it must be said the rest of the pictures were fine…but this remains my favourite. RIB (Rigid Inflatable Boat) races onto scene to pick up casualty, Carol points and shoots…the picture says the rest !

Another day, another model found

Again, please click the About link at the top of this page for contact details. Available for photo shoots to genuine photographers.

Lucy

My photography covers glamour, portrait, landscape & social photography. I hope to show you some snippets of my work here. In time I will get a web page up & running. In the meantime here is a tasty morsel.

Lucy is new to photo modeling – but she certainly is a natural. I can pass on her details to genuine photographers.

Introduction

Swansea based photographer.Thought you might like to see some of my recent images of Kazakhstan…

The capitol, Astana, is considerably different from the image portrayed by Borat!