What I Do: Eithne Davis is a helm with Sligo Bay RNLI
I thought, I can make sandwiches and tea, they are going to need someone to do that. When I walked in the door of the meeting, they said, ‘Oh sure, you’ll be crew anyway’. I was like, ‘Me, really?’ It was kind of as unintentional as that to be honest.
I didn’t know how to drive a boat with a steering wheel, I didn’t know any of the formal techniques, so it was quite daunting. I had to learn the formal procedures. The basic skills and familiarity was there already. It seemed huge, but I took to it really easily. Now, there is a little routine that I go through in my head – have I got socks – there is nothing worse than going into the wellies and the dry suit without socks on. You could be five hours with no socks in a pair of wellies. That’s no craic.
Things that stick in my memory? There are plenty. The things that immediately spring to mind are some of the most beautiful nights where I have had the opportunity to be in places where nobody else would ever get the chance to be, on a glorious starry night, with a flat calm sea and no emergency, a false alarm of some sort.
Nobody goes out being deliberately stupid. Nobody goes out to get into trouble. I never have any issue going out to people regardless of how they got themselves into it. You’ve got to remember as well, we are very rightly restricted in what weather conditions we can launch into, so if someone does something really silly in really bad conditions, then we can’t help. We are not a magic wand.
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