Ferno features in the Boat Race

We’ve grown accustomed to seeing Ferno equipment on the field of play over the years - usually on the football and rugby pitch when a player has been stretcherd off the field following an injury.
However, none of us expected our kit to feature in the 158th Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race on the River Thames between Putney and Mortlake.
One of our basket stretchers, specially designed and manufactured by us for the Royal Lifeboat National Institution, was used to transfer Oxford’s bowman Alex Wood after he collapsed from exhaustion.
On Sunday, Oxford coach Sean Bowden told BBC Radio Five Live: "Alex's on his way back home to Oxford. I think it was just a case of somebody being able to row themselves absolutely to a state of exhaustion."
Immediately after the race, Bowden put Woods' collapse down to the "most extraordinary and unfortunate chain of events" that were set in motion by the swimming protester, who forced the race to be halted.
Oxford lost a blade in a fierce clash of oars shortly after the restart, allowing Cambridge to pull clear to win by over four lengths.
"I guess you can only imagine the desperation that Alex must have been in with only six crew-mates left and that's probably how he ended up pushing himself beyond his limits," Bowden said.
Woods appeared to be unconscious when he was lifted out of the Oxford boat but he was in a stable condition when paramedics transferred him to Charing Cross Hospital.
It was a sad way for Woods' Boat Race dream to end. The former lightweight rower had been at Oxford for 10 years and worked his way up to the blue boat having competed in the reserve Isis crew last year.