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Catching a small hole or tear now may save a lot of time and money down the line.

Drying your wetsuit inside and out after rinsing it with fresh water is the best way to keep it fresh and make it last longer.

In the latest in its Product Care video series, Viking Marine staff member, Antonia, from Dun Laoghaire Harbour on Dublin Bay explains how salt is the natural enemy of sailing wear and gives some tips on how to prevent salt from destroying your suit.

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The family of a young woman with a brain injury are seeking a specialised wetsuit to continue her water therapy, as BreakingNews.ie reports.

Aisling Brady (28) from Trim, Co Meath was working as a teacher in Dubai when she experienced a pulmonary embolism resulting from deep vein thrombosis in late 2017 — causing her to lose her speech and sight, and most movement of her arms and legs

Since her return to Ireland in January last year she has made some progress, particularly via hydrotherapy in the National Rehabilitation Hospital’s temperature-controlled pool.

Now Aisling's family are reaching out to obtain a wetsuit so she can continue her therapy in a standard swimming pool closer to her home.

BreakingNews.ie has more on the story HERE.

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Coastal Notes Coastal Notes covers a broad spectrum of stories, events and developments in which some can be quirky and local in nature, while other stories are of national importance and are on-going, but whatever they are about, they need to be told.

Stories can be diverse and they can be influential, albeit some are more subtle than others in nature, while other events can be immediately felt. No more so felt, is firstly to those living along the coastal rim and rural isolated communities. Here the impact poses is increased to those directly linked with the sea, where daily lives are made from earning an income ashore and within coastal waters.

The topics in Coastal Notes can also be about the rare finding of sea-life creatures, a historic shipwreck lost to the passage of time and which has yet many a secret to tell. A trawler's net caught hauling more than fish but cannon balls dating to the Napoleonic era.

Also focusing the attention of Coastal Notes, are the maritime museums which are of national importance to maintaining access and knowledge of historical exhibits for future generations.

Equally to keep an eye on the present day, with activities of existing and planned projects in the pipeline from the wind and wave renewables sector and those of the energy exploration industry.

In addition Coastal Notes has many more angles to cover, be it the weekend boat leisure user taking a sedate cruise off a long straight beach on the coast beach and making a friend with a feathered companion along the way.

In complete contrast is to those who harvest the sea, using small boats based in harbours where infrastructure and safety poses an issue, before they set off to ply their trade at the foot of our highest sea cliffs along the rugged wild western seaboard.

It's all there, as Coastal Notes tells the stories that are arguably as varied to the environment from which they came from and indeed which shape people's interaction with the surrounding environment that is the natural world and our relationship with the sea.