NCI St Ives
Creator: lloyd77
Deployed: YES
Deployed On: Feb 13, 2012
Location: N/A
First to Capture: eblee-morladers
Last Capture: May 08, 2012
Number of Captures: 2
Decimal: 50.21855 -5.47622
Degrees: 50° 13.113 -5° 28.573
This Munzee has been placed with the kind permission of the NCI trustee board. I am hoping to have a Munzee at each of the 36 NCI Look out posts across the country.
There is no requirement to enter the lookout post to capture the Munzee it is accesible at all times from the outside.
Please resepct the watch staff if they are busy especially during the summer months.
I would really encourage you to leave a donation as they are funded entirely by contributions and as you will see below they do a fantastic job.
The National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) is a voluntary organisation set up in 1994 to restore a visual watch along UK shores after many small Coastguard stations closed due to Government cutbacks. NCI is a registered charity and controlled by a board of Trustees with a Constitution agreed by the Charities Commission.
In 1994 when two fishermen lost their lives off the Cornish coast below a recently closed Coastguard lookout, local people decided to open and restore the visual watch. When the first station was opened at Bass Point on the Lizard, NCI was born. During the next ten years other stations followed and at the start of 2006 there were thirty operational stations keeping visual watch around the coastline of England and Wales.
NCI stations have been set up along the coast from Lands End in the South West to Hartlepool in the North East. Each station has a qualified and highly trained team to watch over its own particular area whether it is a popular seaside town, busy port or shipping area. Accidents will always happen at sea and along the coastline, wherever there is an NCI station a watchkeeper will be looking out for danger and ensuring your safety on the water.
High technology and sophisticated systems such as radar and telecommunications have vastly improved safety at sea, but there is no substitute for a watchful pair of eyes. Accidents do happen and a computer or technology cannot spot a distress flare, an overturned boat, a yacht with problems, a water sports enthusiast in difficulty, or children or adults in trouble, or possible pollution incidents. That is why the lookouts and watchkeepers are an important service provider to all those who use our coastal waters, footpaths and coastline.
There is no requirement to enter the lookout post to capture the Munzee it is accesible at all times from the outside.
Please resepct the watch staff if they are busy especially during the summer months.
I would really encourage you to leave a donation as they are funded entirely by contributions and as you will see below they do a fantastic job.
The National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) is a voluntary organisation set up in 1994 to restore a visual watch along UK shores after many small Coastguard stations closed due to Government cutbacks. NCI is a registered charity and controlled by a board of Trustees with a Constitution agreed by the Charities Commission.
In 1994 when two fishermen lost their lives off the Cornish coast below a recently closed Coastguard lookout, local people decided to open and restore the visual watch. When the first station was opened at Bass Point on the Lizard, NCI was born. During the next ten years other stations followed and at the start of 2006 there were thirty operational stations keeping visual watch around the coastline of England and Wales.
NCI stations have been set up along the coast from Lands End in the South West to Hartlepool in the North East. Each station has a qualified and highly trained team to watch over its own particular area whether it is a popular seaside town, busy port or shipping area. Accidents will always happen at sea and along the coastline, wherever there is an NCI station a watchkeeper will be looking out for danger and ensuring your safety on the water.
High technology and sophisticated systems such as radar and telecommunications have vastly improved safety at sea, but there is no substitute for a watchful pair of eyes. Accidents do happen and a computer or technology cannot spot a distress flare, an overturned boat, a yacht with problems, a water sports enthusiast in difficulty, or children or adults in trouble, or possible pollution incidents. That is why the lookouts and watchkeepers are an important service provider to all those who use our coastal waters, footpaths and coastline.