Bay Search & Rescue

Flookburgh, Grange Over Sands

The Bay Search and Rescue Team (formerly Bay Hovercraft Rescue) was founded in 2001 and was the first SAR Team in the U.K. to use a hovercraft as a front line rescue vehicle. Our hovercraft consistently proved its worth out on the Bay, being able to operate where conventional search and rescue craft could not travel.

In 2005 our hovercraft was replaced by a Hagglund articulated 4 track vehicle. The Hagglund is a more versatile vehicle for our type of operations and gives us the capability of transporting more personnel and equipment than was previously possible, providing a search 'platform' and enabling us to transfer 'stretcher cases' from the Bay into the care of the Ambulance service.

Visit website: www.baysearchandrescue.org.uk

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