Paul D Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 MARITIME AND COASTGUARD AGENCY RELEASE SEARCH AND RESCUE STATISTICS FOR 2004 The MCA today released its search and rescue figures for 2004. Regrettably, the total number of recorded deaths is up on last year. However, the bulk of the increase is accounted for by suicide cases (up by 50%) and by the Morecambe Bay cockle pickers tragedy (which accounted for 21 deaths from a single incident). Without those 21 deaths, other fatalities from direct marine accidents would have fallen significantly. A breakdown of the figures is shown below. The numbers of people getting into difficulty and being assisted or actually rescued also fell by 13%. However hoax calls to the Coastguard were up from a recorded 232 in 2003 to 301 in 2004. The figures are as follows: 2003 2004 Total reports to the Coastguard: 13,849 14,240 Total occasions of assistance rendered: 8,070 8,056 Total numbers of persons assisted 25,118 21,600 (but not life threatening situations) Total number of persons rescued (where life at risk): 5,689 5,276 Total recorded deaths (excluding suicides): 198 188 Of the fatalities recorded by the Coastguard: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swainiac Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 Paul, do we know how many of these fatalities are diving acidents?? I seem to recall that diving accidents were well up on previous years last year. Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 interesting stuff paul Thanks Paulj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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