Beris Wakenshaw
Beris belongs to: Cullercoats RNLI
Beris grew up in Cullercoats. She joined the RNLI for a challenge and is the first female crew member in the history of Cullercoats RNLI.
Beris was interviewed by Carl Greenwood on 20 November 2005. The interview took place at Cullercoats RNLI Station and lasted 15 minutes and 8 seconds.
Sounds and smells
"When I hear, when I hear like BANG"
When I hear, when I hear like BANG, I don’t know, when I hear like a rocket go off or something like that I think, “is that the lifeboat?” or if I hear a big bang, I think, “God, has my pager not gone off? Is that the lifeboat?” My alarm, when my alarm goes off I sometimes think it’s my pager going off. Other than that, not really, if I hear, you know, the noise we were getting in there, like the radio noise, if I hear that, just little things like that.
Interviewer: And what about smells?
Rubber. Rubber off the dry suits and yeah, probably just that. And fuel of the, do you know when the fuel’s burning and, well, when you get the smell of the exhaust and stuff on the lifeboat and you can smell the fuel and fumes, petrol fumes and everything like that.
Beris has 7 memories in the memorynet:
Beris's memories with a Safety theme:
Safety equipmentBeris's other memories:
Joining the RNLI- Call outs
- Fundraising events
- Sounds and smells
- What does the sea mean to you?
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Environment | Sounds and Smells
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