The Lifeboat returned to station at 14.30 hrs.
Maintaining
a 1 mile exclusion zone around the vessel.
Picture courtesy Jason Delf
A closer
view of the vessel
Picture courtesy Jason Delf
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| Callout to Arco Dyke 29th June 2006 | ||
| At 11.00 hrs on 6th July 2006 the Caister
Lifeboat launched to assist the Dutch dredger Arco Dyke.
The dredger which was gathering sand and ballast from the
sea bed 5 miles off Bacton, stopped when it was found to
have caught a World War II practice bomb. Caister
lifeboat was tasked by HM Coastguards to enforce a one
mile exclusion zone around the vessel which moved to meet
the lifeboat off Sea Palling. The exclusion continued
until Royal Navy bomb disposal experts had freed the bomb
and safely disposed of it. This was the second occasion
in the past twelve months that the dredger has been
unfortunate in uncovering an explosive device and serves
to highlight the case that a great deal of unexploded
ordnance remains around our coastline, from several
periods of our history. The Lifeboat returned to station at 14.30 hrs. |
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