New Lifeboat Helm at Llandudno
RNLI volunteer, Adam Finch-Saunders, completes his helm training program and has passed out as a Helm on Llandudno’s inshore lifeboat.
Adam has been a volunteer at Llandudno for a combined service total of nearly ten years, having been a volunteer for five years, joining when he was 17, Adam then went to sea to pursue a seafaring career before re-joining early 2015. He has served as a crew member on both the all-weather and inshore lifeboats.
Adam said: 'I am enormously proud to be part of the volunteer crew at Llandudno which was in fact a significant founding step in the professional seafaring career I now enjoy.
'I am also delighted to have completed my helm training and now look forward to joining the compliment of other Helm crew members at Llandudno Lifeboat Station”.
Llandudno Lifeboat Operations Manager Capt. Marcus Elliott explained: 'Our crews are prepared to drop everything and risk their lives to save others at a moment's notice. Their lifesaving work is essential, often difficult, and sometimes dangerous. That is why we provide our crew members with first-class training, equipment, guidance and support. Our lifeboat crews train together every week, at sea and ashore and have continued to do so throughout the pandemic. The additional challenges this creates only serves to enhance Adam’s achievement in passing out successfully as our newest inshore lifeboat Helm.'
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