A WEST Cumbria coastguard team conducted their latest training exercise this week. 

Whitehaven Coastguard Rescue Team conducted the training at an indoor facility. 

It mostly involved rope rescue practice techniques. 

In a post on social media, Whitehaven Coastguard wrote: "Training this week focused on a number of indoor simulated Rope Rescue work stations, along with setups with errors to be identified.

"This was to ready some team members for the upcoming rope rescue technician requalification next week. Wish us luck. 

The indoor training facility The indoor training facility (Image: Whitehaven Coastguard)

"In order to maintain competence, coastguard rescue officers are required to revalidate their competence by undergoing thorough individual and team assessments, led by our Full Time Officers.

"Each competence and its various levels require differing frequencies of reassessment, ranging from aspects done annually to every three years.

"HM Coastguard is responsible for the initiation and coordination of civil maritime search and rescue within the UK search and rescue region.

The indoor training facility The indoor training facility (Image: Whitehaven Coastguard)

"This includes the mobilisation, organisation and tasking of adequate resources to respond to persons either in distress at sea, or to persons at risk of injury or death on the cliffs or shoreline of the UK as well as some inland waters (for Cumbria this includes Derwentwater, Ullswater, Coniston, and Windermere)."