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3rd November 2021

Co Wexford Coastguard Unit Features in Virgin Media Series ‘Ireland’s Unidentified Bodies’

Carnsore/Rosslare Coast Guard is featured in the third episode of Ireland’s Unidentified Bodies, now streaming on the Virgin Media Player.

The episode glimpses into the coastguard’s part in assisting in a search for remains off the coast of Wexford.

As previously reported in the Irish Independent, the four-part docuseries hopes to join the dots in the search for Ireland’s missing people.

The series is currently being rebroadcast on Wednesdays, and you can catch episode three again next Wednesday night at 11pm on Virgin Media One.

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago