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Callout Information
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Written by Ross Lilley
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Sunday, 15 January 2012 23:19 |
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The team
were called out around 7pm to search for two
walkers who had got benighted and lost in cloud on the Ben Achallader -
Ben a Creachain ridge. They were not carrying head torches, map or
compass and lost their bearings in the dark and cloud.
Several pairs of team members began searching the ridge from either end.
Fortunately for the lost walkers one of them managed to download
a smart phone app that allowed him to find their latitude and
longtitude co-ordinates via his phone GPS. The callout manager
had been in touch with them when the callout first came in and so they
had his home phone number. They called this and gave their
co-ordinates to his wife who relayed them to the callout manager via Oban police. He converted them to ordnance survey grid references and pinpointed them on
top of Ben a Creachain. He then radio'd the teams on the hill to tell
them to make for the walkers location. They were eventually found just
before midnight, cold but otherwise well, and escorted off the hill by
2am. |
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Callout Information
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Written by Ross Lilley
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Sunday, 18 December 2011 23:59 |
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Callout came at 1539. 46 year old male with possible broken ankle on Northern slopes of Ben Sguillard. Had got into difficult steep ground on way off the top, tripped and fell, injuring his ankle.
Rescue 177 helicopter from HMS Gannet, Prestwick joined the team at 1705 and flew 3 members up the hill. They were winched down to casualty along with winchman and gave him treatment before he and everyone were all winched back on board and brought back to rv. Casualty was then taken to Belford Hospital in Fort William where he was found to have a bad sprain and fortunately no fracture. Everyone returned home by 7pm.
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Callout Information
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Written by Ross Lilley
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Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:51 |
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The team were called out at 0228 to search for and rescue 2 people stuck on Ben Sgulaird.
Usual team callout procedures were thwarted by lack of operational mobile phone masts after the previous Thursday's storm. So most of the team were mustered via their landlines.
The walkers torch lights were quickly spotted just below the summit of the ben above Glen Ure Farm on very steep craggy ground. Team members were dispatched up the hill to approach the walkers from above with security ropes etc.
At 0450 Rescue 137 sea king helicopter from RAF Lossiemouth arrived and was able to winch the two men off the hill. Both were fine and well equipped but cold having been stuck on the hill since before 5pm the previous evening. They had tried to descend the hill by a direct route into the glen and become stuck and had decided to sit it out on a small snow ledge. They had tried to send a 999 call and text by mobile but had also been thwarted by the lack of mobile phone reception. They had been flashing their torch on and of all night but not seen by anyone. Fortunately one of their wives alerted police when the pair had not returned home according to the times on their route card.
All of the team were off the hill by 0530 and home by 0700hrs. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:54 |
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Callout Information
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Written by Ross Lilley
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Sunday, 27 November 2011 13:18 |
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The team were called out on Saturday 26th Nov to assist a Kayaker with suspected broken leg on a waterfall near Furnace, Inveraray. Other kayakers were able to get him to the river bank which was difficult to access from the nearest road. Rescue 177 Sea King helicopter arrived on scene and was able to uplift the casualty to safety before the team arrived. So team were stood down and returned to base. |
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Public News
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Written by Ross Lilley
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Monday, 31 October 2011 21:46 |
Friday 4th November.
BBC 2 at 7pm.
Landward will feature Sarah Mack being rescued from Appin caves and then tyroleaned across the gorge
by Oban MRT. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 31 October 2011 21:51 |
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