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The Sentinel THE South Atlantic Media Services, Ltd. www.sams.sh Vol. 4,SENTINEL Issue 18 - Price: £1 “serving St Helena and her community worldwide” Thursday 23 July 2015 Newly Formed Sea Rescue Team with their Trainer Graham Harding NEW SEA RESCUE BOATS LAUNCHED Riding The Waves PAS Students Name New Vessels Jordan Stevens, SAMS On Friday 17 July, two new sea rescue vessels were launched at Rupert’s Bay by the St Helena Sea Rescue Service. The vessels were launched to improve sea rescue on St Helena and as part of the airport project. The naming ceremony began with an introductory speech by Gov- ernor Mark Capes and a blessing by Bishop Richard Fenwick. This was then followed by the Governor’s wife Tamara Capes naming the boats and pouring champagne onto the bows of the boats according to tradition. The boats are two 8.5 metre Gemini semi-rigid vessels which are pow- ered by twin 200 horsepower Mercury engines, mounted on the stern with a top speed of around 42 knots. The design of the boats is based on South African type R&R sea rescue boats. These are multipurpose vessels which can carry out a range of operations at sea. “They can ba- sically handle anything you can throw at them in the sea,” Sea Rescue Training Offi cer Graham Harding told The Sentinel. The vessels were named ‘Sea Lion’ and ‘Ocean Rider’ by Prince An- drew School students Venus Williams and Trystan Thomas. This was SStudentstudents wwhoho nnamedamed tthehe BBoats,oats, VVenusenus WWilliamsilliams aandnd TTrystanrystan TThomashomas Continued on page 4 2 www.sams.sh Thursday 23 July 2015 | THE SENTINEL ST HELENA SNIPPETS WWhathat A DazzlingDazzling SSmilemile EEzrazra CCruzruz CClarke-Peterslarke-Peters Anne Clarke, SAMS Full of smiles, Ezra Cruz Clarke-Peters, was born to proud parents, Anne Clarke and Chris Peters and big brothers, Andy, Jamie and Calum on 2 April at 3.02pm. Weighing 5lb 13oz and measuring 42cm, happy little Ezra, “loves bath time with Nanny Jean.” Mummy is happy and proud of her baby boy and would like to say, “a special thank you to partner Chris for being so attentive and caring dur- ing the birth” of their son.” Daddy is, “very proud,” of his little boy and is, “loving father- hood.” Big brothers Andy, Jamie and Calum are, “affectionate towards Ezra,” said mum- my, “they are really enjoying having a new ad- dition to the family.” Both parents would like to express belated thanks to Doctor Francisco and midwives Rosie Mittens and Erika Bow- ers for the safe delivery of baby Ezra. Thanks are also extended to all those who sent wishes, cards and gifts. CCC Going Green Solar Cells on the CCC Roof national grid, reducing the amount of fuel used solar panels should have paid for themselves, Increasing Renewable by the diesel generators. hopefully reducing the cost of electricity to the Connect’s CEO, Barry Hubbard, told SAMS consumer. The solar panels have a life expec- Energy on St Helena that the CCC was picked for its “sunny lo- tancy of about 25 years. cation” and “big roofs.” The roofs have re- Renewable energy is very important to the Robyn Midwinter, SAMS cently been replaced, “which is important to island, not only by saving money in the long make sure that solar panels are not placed on run, but in helping to save the environment by something that is going to leak and then cause both reducing fossil fuels that are burnt and problems repairing it later,” Mr Hubbard ex- the cost of transporting fuel to the island. “The Within the last few weeks solar panels plained. world’s resources are limited, and with the rest have been installed on the roof of the Com- These solar panels will help save approximate- of the world going green St Helena needs to munity Care Complex (CCC) in Ladder Hill. ly £15,000 a year, depending on what the die- play its part,” said Mr Hubbard. These solar panels will feed electricity into the sel prices are in the future. After 4-5 years the THE SENTINEL | Thursday 23 July 2015 www.sams.sh 3 ST HELENA SNIPPETS A Hero’s Welcome Island Games Team Returns Jordan Stevens, SAMS The St Helena 2015 Island Games Team returned back to St Helena on Wednesday 15 July after an outstanding performance in Jer- sey. The team was welcomed by a large crowd after coming ashore, consisting of NASAS members, school children, relatives of team members and members of the public. On arrival, the team’s performance during the games was celebrated at a brief ceremony at the Jamestown Wharf. This opened with a short song by primary school children which was then followed by speeches by the Chair- man and President of the NASAS Committee as well as Chef de Mission, Gavin George. IIslandsland GGamesames TeamTeam ArrivingArriving bbackack aatt SStt HHelenaelena The team were very happy to be back on St Helena and looked forward to reuniting with Shooters, Madolyn Andrews and Kayleigh Osborne, shooters Madolyn Andrews, Jodie their family after four weeks away from home. Harris, performed particularly well, gaining Scipio-Constantine, Kayleigh Harris, Chelsea During the games, the team performed well, second place in the 50m Three Position Small- Benjamin, Jordie Andrews and Simon Henry, receiving very good results in their disciplines. bore Rifl e Women’s Team event. Chelsea Ben- swimmer Ben Dillon, golfers Martin (Jackson) “For us to send a team from an Island with a jamin and Madolyn also put on an outstanding Buckley, Patrick Sim and Malcolm Williams population of just over 4000 people and who, performance, earning a bronze medal in the and sprinter Alexia Reynolds. in my opinion was able to hold their own 50m Prone Smallbore Rifl e Women’s Team Twenty-four Island teams took part in this against international athletes who have fa- event. “For us this is gold! This is Amazing!” year’s Games, with St Helena coming in 22nd cilities superior to ours, it is amazing,” said said bronze medallist, Chelsea Benjamin. place with one bronze medal. This is one of NASAS Chairman, Nicky Stevens, during his The team consisted of Chef de Mission, Gavin St Helena’s best international sporting perfor- speech. George, managers Pat Henry and Barbara mances so far. Salvage Divers get up and Personal with Wreck In good shape after 74 years The First Hot Tap Valve installed on the wreck of RFA Darkdale DDiveriver rreadyeady ttoo eenternter tthehe wwaterater Jane Durnford, SAMS The Pacifi c Dolphin moved to her perma- nent moorings over the Darkdale wreck two weeks ago; during this time, the salvage team has been concentrating on the careful and de- tailed work of preparing for the hot tapping the exact position to be drilled. The thickness was built.” operation, when they will start to remove oil reading of the hull has been a surprise as they The divers have successfully drilled one hot from the wreck. have shown that on the majority of the wreck tap as a system test and this was followed by a Andy Liddell, Project Manager for the Dark- there has been very little corrosion.” test pump during which they removed 25 cu- dale project, said that this has, “involved a lot The sea is a corrosive environment for wooden bic meters of oil. of dives to carefully mark out the hull, clean material and metal objects. Despite being sunk The team hopes to have 12 valves drilled and off the layer of marine growth, take ultra-sonic for 74 years, Mr Liddell said, “The steel is vir- attached to the wreck in preparation for the ar- thickness reading of the steel and then mark tually the same thickness as the day the ship rival of the tanker later in the week. 4 www.sams.sh Thursday 23 July 2015 | THE SENTINEL SENTINEL Riding The Waves COMMENT Jordan Stevens, SAMS Continued from front page Hannah Durnford, SAMS So as this is my fi rst comment for ‘The Sen- tinel’ I was a little bit stumped as to what to write about. After a little thinking I decided to write about life on St. Helena from a teenager’s perspective, as my view of the island is most likely different to that of adults who are living both on and off the island. I want to start off by saying that I’m not about to complain about the island and that there’s noth- ing to do here and that it’s a boring lifestyle etc, because that’s not the angle I was going for. I do accept that there aren’t many places to spend time with friends here, for instance, at a cin- ema, bowling alley, shopping centre or arcade. NNewew BBoatsoats bbeingeing llaunchedaunched oonn tthehe ttemporaryemporary sslipwaylipway aatt RRupertsuperts I also appreciate that I haven’t lived anywhere else as a teenager, so I can’t compare the life- after they won a school competition in which The St Helena Sea Rescue crew told The style of living here to elsewhere in the world, students competed to invent the best names for Sentinel that they were very excited about but looking at old school friend’s, who are liv- the two rescue vessels. the launch. “I can’t wait to get it in the wa- ing in the UK, social media profi les, I can get a The launch of these new sea rescue boats will ter, it’s been a long slug getting here; a lot of clear idea of their way of life, what they do for allow the sea rescue crew to react quickly to hard work, a lot of people in the background fun, etc.
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