Last Sept as I approached Mosely lock heading upstream there was a man collapsed on the mooring area, the lock keeper was there and asked us to move further back to give them room, ( fair enough, we hadn't seen the man until we were close ). Anyway about 15 mins later the lock keeper approached me and said something like ' you understand locks, can you operate the lock for me as I have to organise a landing area for the air ambulance?' yes I said, he gave me a HiViz jacket and talked me through the operation, although I already knew how to operate them. He then asked to give priority to the 'pay boats' passenger steamers etc and left me to it for 2 1/2 hrs. I really enjoyed myself! He had left the locks in semi-automatic mode ( like they do when they are unmanned ). Obviously I let all the nb's in first ;-) The Air Ambulance ( Helicopter ) arrived and the man was taken away ( hope he recovered but no news ),
I have some photo's somewhere. Adrian 2008/9/17 Malcolm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:34:45 +0100, Steve Wood <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]<steve%40bream.org> > > > wrote: > > >Malcolm wrote: > > > >> As documented on TV - there are now several Air Ambulance services - > >> using helicopters. > >> > >> I wonder how many times - if any - these helicopters have gone to the > >> aid of boaters in these remote locations ???. > > > >Ssshhh you will have the BW Safety Mafia painting the number 20 feet > >across at every lock and bridge so it can be read from the air ;-) > > > >Steve > > Yes Steve :-)) > > but I'll think you will find most have very good navigation / mapping > systems on board - and excellent ex-Army, Navy or Air Force pilots. > -- > > Malcolm > > > -- Adrian [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
