Saving Lives Since 1975 – Charity No.1073840
The weather forecasts during the week leading up to This years Seahorse Swim were forecasting Easterly winds, blowing at 16 mph with gustts up to 28 mph. This led to some serious forecast watching and warnings of potential cancellations due to sea star being too rough to hold the swim from a safety perspective. However […]
Another succesful Safety Cover event completed by RLSS Poole Lifeguard. This time out, it was the turn of the Sandbanks Traithlon organised by Michelle Holloway and Results Triathlon. 77 swimmers took to the water at 6am for the 750m course set by RLSS Poole Lifeguard. This meant an early start for all of our members. […]
Once again a huge thankyou to the usual team for covering the inaugural Sandbanks triathlon at stupid o’clock this morning, I know it was particularly challenging on the last turn buoy and that the swimmers were so glad to have you there to pull them back in to the shallows. Thanks to Louise Harrison, David […]
Our 4th Safety Cover event of the year so far took place on Sunday 3rd July at Knoll Beach – Studland for more than 200 swimmers taking to the water for the Annual Seahorse Swim organised by EDOWSC (East Dorset Open Water Swimming Club). This time we were keenly aided by our neighbouring club Branksome […]
The Swanage Triathlon (organised by Results Triathlon – Michelle Noble) turned out to be our first Safety Cover event of the year due to our first event being postponed from May to June 18th due to horrible storms that came in over night on May 21st. So off we set to Swanage today with the […]
RLSS Poole were at it again bright an early on the morning of 12th September at Sandbanks, although the weather was far from bright. It was dark, raining and blowing hard., and the sea was rough when we arrived at 05:45hrs. But as predicted as the early hours passed, all three boats were afloat, the […]
The annual Swanage Triathlon, organised by Results Triathlon (Michelle Noble) took part today, and we again layed the buoys for the course and then provided the safety cover for the swim section of the triathlon. The weather was very kind and we had a wonderful sunrise as we left RMYC at 05:30hrs on board RLSS […]
To all members 14yrs old and over – We are requesting your help!! We are providing Safety Cover for the Swanage Triathlon on the 7th June 2015, funnily enough at Swanage 🙂 We are still short of Paddlers so if you are able to help and free on the morning of the 7th of June, […]
What a fitting end to a long hard season with another successful event covered. Once again a big thank you to all the paddlers, foot patrols and boat crews for covering the Human Race Poole Swim at Sandbanks on Sat 27th Sept. Over 400 swimmers took to the water and were very pleased to be […]
The Club provided its first safety cover of the year, by starting the Tuesday night sessions for EDOWSC at Shore Road. Emma Marjason and Sam Harrison were joined by Anita Kovács to provide the safety cover, in what can only be described as some very challenging conditions. 2 swimmers were rescued in total when they got into […]