Category: Safetey Cover

Each year, East Dorset Open Water Swimming Club (EDOWSC) hosts the Seahorse Swim, raising funds for the Seahorse Trust and the National Trust. A portion of the proceeds is also donated to our Club – RLSS Poole Lifeguard, in recognition of our key role in coordinating safety cover, providing buoys and equipment, and setting up […]

Today (18th September 2022) saw the last of our Safety Cover Events this year with the Results Triathlon at Sandbanks Beach. This was the 3rd attempt of starting this event, seeing as the traffic lights due to the prolonged roadworks earlier in the year, at shore road, prevented the organiser from being to start the […]

Diary of my first safety cover I arrived at our muster point at approx 08.15hrs to see part of our club already laying the course of buoys. This gave me the chance to take in the atmosphere, talk to other club volunteers and enjoy the warm sun on my skin, even though I was somewhat […]

Our 2nd Safety cover event of the year, took place at Sandbanks with club members mustering at 05:00hrs to get all the kit out and the course set ready for a 06:00hrs swim start. A perfect morning, with a lovely sunrise, however when we set the buoys for the course, we discovered that the tide […]

It’s great to be back doing what the club is all about! – Providing Safety Cover at waterborne events. The first one of this year was on the 1st May 2022 and involved the Swanage Triathlon organised by Results Triathlon. It involved a 04:30hrs wake up alarm to be up and around at Swanage Seafront […]