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Over 20 crew members from the two teams gathered on the beach - which last summer was the scene of many real incidents - to practise the rescue of a casualty.
Our photos show the craft out in the mud with the Mud Rescue team and, right, the hovercraft team being briefed prior to the exercise. A similar
second exercise is due to be held in 2-3 weeks time. It comes as Burnham's
rescue services gear up for another busy summer. The hovercraft helped
and rescued more than 50 people during 2004 - its first full year of
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Burnham's
hovercraft and coastguard teams rehearsed a joint rescue of a casualty
stuck in the notorious mud at Brean on Sunday March 6th.
The
hovercraft flew out over the mud to help the Coastguard Mud Rescue Team
bring a 'casualty' back to dry land. 