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The view of the Gosport Station from the Round Tower

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was on my PC today and came across a number of videos on YouTube that describe National Coastwatch and its operation pretty well. If you have an idle few minutes, and want to learn more about NCI, you may like to watch these...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfjX554jnaE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SqCOcLAfpM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPtJ0aeclJg

NCI Poulran BBC Spotlight - December 1st 2010

CoastWatch.mp4 - YouTube

Do please bear in mind that some of the vidos are ten years old or more, and some of the statistics and numbers of stations are out of date. Just to set the record straight, as of end 2021...

There were about 56 operational NCI stations

Which participated in about 700 incidents.... half of which were initiated by NCI.




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