Pinkston Watersports
Pinkston Watersports is community paddlesports centre with Scotland's only artificial whitewater course, offering unique urban watersports facilities to organisations and individuals.
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Water Safety & Rescue training course at the Pinkston Water Sports Centre in Glasgow.
Note: There is sound but only when water washes over the camera.
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General information about Pinkston Watersports
UKRO 2016 Scottish Rescue Challenge Pinkston National training centre
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS), in partnership with the United Kingdom Rescue Organisation (UKRO) has hosted the Scottish Rescue Challenge at the weekend and what a spectacular start it was to the 2016 Rescue Challenge calendar.
On Friday 19th and Saturday 20th March the first challenge of 2016 was held at two world class venues, Pinkston Water Complex, Glasgow and at the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters and National Training Centre at Clydesmill, Cumbuslang in South Lanarkshire. The state of the art training centre, which is designed to ensure that today’s modern firefighters are fully prepared for the many challenges they encounter each day has 5 zones which include Academic, Domestic, Industrial, Urban Search and Rescue and an extensive transport zone. The transport zone includes a railway line and motorway both of which were fully utilised at the challenge on Saturday. The challenge organisers aimed to provide scenarios in a realistic environment and both Pinkston and the national training centre and certainly lived up to it, all of which went down a storm with competitors and spectators.
Five teams from Scottish Fire and Rescue Service took part in both trauma and road traffic collision challenges and were joined by teams from Northumberland and Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Services. The Scottish teams of Firefighters showed off their skills to win a place in the national UKRO Challenge 2016 in Hampshire.
The extrication and trauma teams were made up of full time and retained fire service personnel from Stepps, Whitburn, Ayr, Huntly and Stranraer.
The water rescue challenge saw teams from the Scottish Fire and Rescue service along with colleagues from Police Scotland test their skills, which included working in, swimming in and negotiating a rescue boat through swift flowing water to rescue people from houses and vehicles engulfed by the rising waters.
The Road Traffic Collision Challenge saw crews working to safely rescue trapped casualties from a challenging road traffic collision scenario within a 20 minutes timeframe. Crews attending the incidents were faced with crashed vehicles in a number of very realistic and challenging scenarios.
The Trauma Challenge tested the response of crews who faced one of a selection of trauma incidents, including a worker who lost a limb on a live railway line after being struck by a train and worker who clasped in a chemical factory. Faced with the scenario, crews were expected to quickly identify and treat the injuries found.
During the challenges, the crews were independently assessed under the scrutiny of experienced UKRO assessors in order to determine the winners of each category. The team from Ayr won the Road Traffic Collision Challenge and the Trauma Challenge was won by Whitburn.
Assistant Chief Fire Officer Ramsay awarded the winners with their trophies and said: “Well done to all of those that took part in the challenges. He continued: “The challenges are an excellent opportunity for crews to improve and build upon their existing skills and ensure that we deliver a first class service to the communities we serve.”
Steve Apter Chairman of the UKRO said “The Scottish Rescue Challenge was a huge success, the introduction of realistic challenge environments in Water Rescue, Vehicle Rescue and Trauma scenarios ensured that all teams were faced incidents as near as possible to the real thing. Talking to teams that they thoroughly enjoyed the experience and they looked forward to next year’s Scottish Rescue Challenge. Steve went on to thank Chief Officer Hay and all this staff who worked to make the event the success it was. ”
Pinkston in the snow
Winter training at Pinkston Water Sports Centre, January 2015. Music: Foster The People, Pumped Up Kicks
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Summer Awards 2015
Summer Awards 2015. Some of our favourite memories from this season. We would like to say a huge Thanks to Cruden Building and Renewals, Scottish Canals, Castle Semple, Glasgow Kayak Club and Pinkston for their support this season.
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Open Water Swimming Glasgow | Vigour Events
To book a Coaching Session or for more information, please visit vigourevents.com or call us on 0333 577 7946
Robert Hamilton of Vigour Events introduces the new Open Water Swimming and Coaching Sessions at Pinkston Watersports Centre, Glasgow. Officially completed on the 19th of May 2014, Pinkston is now Europe’s biggest outdoor swimming facility at 140m length x 28m wide, and regularly hosts Vigour Events sessions.
Open Water Swimming Glasgow | Open Water Swimming Scotland
Wakeboarding at National Watersports Centre with SJ4000 (GoPro-alike)
SJ4000 capturing wakeboarding at the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham.
Pinkston div 1 06/05/17 second run
Paul McConkey Premier Race: Semi Final
Washburn Slalom 16-17/04/16 (RAW)
Full Water Rescue Day at Pinkston Scottish UKRO2016
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS), in partnership with the United Kingdom Rescue Organisation (UKRO) has hosted the Scottish Rescue Challenge at the weekend and what a spectacular start it was to the 2016 Rescue Challenge calendar.
On Friday 19th and Saturday 20th March the first challenge of 2016 was held at two world class venues, Pinkston Water Complex, Glasgow and at the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters and National Training Centre at Clydesmill, Cumbuslang in South Lanarkshire. The state of the art training centre, which is designed to ensure that today’s modern firefighters are fully prepared for the many challenges they encounter each day has 5 zones which include Academic, Domestic, Industrial, Urban Search and Rescue and an extensive transport zone. The transport zone includes a railway line and motorway both of which were fully utilised at the challenge on Saturday. The challenge organisers aimed to provide scenarios in a realistic environment and both Pinkston and the national training centre and certainly lived up to it, all of which went down a storm with competitors and spectators.
Five teams from Scottish Fire and Rescue Service took part in both trauma and road traffic collision challenges and were joined by teams from Northumberland and Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Services. The Scottish teams of Firefighters showed off their skills to win a place in the national UKRO Challenge 2016 in Hampshire.
The extrication and trauma teams were made up of full time and retained fire service personnel from Stepps, Whitburn, Ayr, Huntly and Stranraer.
The water rescue challenge saw teams from the Scottish Fire and Rescue service along with colleagues from Police Scotland test their skills, which included working in, swimming in and negotiating a rescue boat through swift flowing water to rescue people from houses and vehicles engulfed by the rising waters.
The Road Traffic Collision Challenge saw crews working to safely rescue trapped casualties from a challenging road traffic collision scenario within a 20 minutes timeframe. Crews attending the incidents were faced with crashed vehicles in a number of very realistic and challenging scenarios.
The Trauma Challenge tested the response of crews who faced one of a selection of trauma incidents, including a worker who lost a limb on a live railway line after being struck by a train and worker who clasped in a chemical factory. Faced with the scenario, crews were expected to quickly identify and treat the injuries found.
During the challenges, the crews were independently assessed under the scrutiny of experienced UKRO assessors in order to determine the winners of each category. The team from Ayr won the Road Traffic Collision Challenge and the Trauma Challenge was won by Whitburn.
Assistant Chief Fire Officer Ramsay awarded the winners with their trophies and said: “Well done to all of those that took part in the challenges. He continued: “The challenges are an excellent opportunity for crews to improve and build upon their existing skills and ensure that we deliver a first class service to the communities we serve.”
Steve Apter Chairman of the UKRO said “The Scottish Rescue Challenge was a huge success, the introduction of realistic challenge environments in Water Rescue, Vehicle Rescue and Trauma scenarios ensured that all teams were faced incidents as near as possible to the real thing. Talking to teams that they thoroughly enjoyed the experience and they looked forward to next year’s Scottish Rescue Challenge. Steve went on to thank Chief Officer Hay and all this staff who worked to make the event the success it was. ”
UKRO is a fast moving dynamic organisation that is determined to push all rescue disciplines to their professional pinnacle, to drive the national agenda on road death reduction and to showcase other rescue disciplines including trauma, line rescue, urban search and rescue and water rescue.
Each year the National and World Extrication & Rescue Challenges grow significantly. The UKRO will expand its’ capacity and, in conjunction with its partners, maintain the commitment towards reducing road deaths through education, engineering and enforcement.
The UKRO is staffed entirely by Fire, Rescue and Medical volunteers from throughout the UK. Without them and the support of UK Fire & Rescue Services the UKRO could not do its work.
Glasgow to Edinburgh Canoe Challenge 2017
Glasgow to Edinburgh Canal Challenge 2017.
Kidney Cancer Scotland are delighted to be the beneficiary of the Glasgow to Edinburgh Canal Challenge 2017 (#Glas2Ed2017) which will take place on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th October. Following the huge success of the 2016 event, early booking of you place is recommended.
For further information and support on all matters relating to kidney cancer please visit kcuk.org.uk
Jen McGaley Club,Brit & Euro Champs 2017
Jen McGaley's 3 jam session rides at the British & Club Championships at HPP Nottingham. Jen takes her Jackson Rockstar XS into the inlet gate for some freestyle fun.
Chapel Falls 0614
Chapel Falls, Wales May / June 2014. Best result of the season so far in Kayak and Canoe :)