News Update
#LOUGH DERG - RTÉ News reports that the body of a man in his 40s was recovered from Lough Derg on Friday night. As previously reported on Afloat.ie, the Lough Derg RNLI lifeboat was launched to investigate an upturned speedboat…
#MARINE RESOURCES - The Irish Times reports on ambitious plans to double the turnover generated by the ocean economy as announced by the Taoiseach yesterday. The new 'ocean wealth roadmap' is specifically geared towards exploiting the potential for 'blue growth',…
#MARINE RESOURCES - The first event of the Atlantic Forum to inform the EU Strategy for the Atlantic (EUSA) will be held on Faial Island in Portugal's Azores on Friday 21 September. The inaugural meeting will be held under the them…
#MISSING FISHERMAN - Search teams combing the coast off Valentia Island for a missing fisherman have this afternoon found the body of a man, according to the Irish Examiner. A major search operation was launched last night after the 32-year-old…
#MARINE NOTICE - The latest Marine Notice from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport (DTTAS) reminds mariners to familiarise themselves with the operation of the distress alert button on GMDSS marine radio equipment. Radio communications fitted on board Irish…
#SHIP'S SILVER SALVAGE – A record breaking 48 tonnes of silver bullion has been recovered from S.S. Gairsoppa, a 412-ft British cargoship that was torpedoed by U-Boat in WWII and sank some 300 miles south-west of the Galway coast in…
# NEWS: The adventurer and former Trinity oarsman Mark Pollock will give a talk next Wednesday, July 25th, at 7pm in the Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College. Pollock continued to row even after he lost his sight at 22 and…
Ireland's Marine Plan to be Published 'Within Months' Coveney Tells Summer School
16th July 2012 News Update
#marine – in a wide-ranging speech on Saturday Simon Coveney T.D., Minister for Agriculture and the Marine promised an integrated marine plan - to be published within months - which will ensure that the development of Ireland's enormous offshore zone…
#NEWS UPDATE - BreakingNews.ie reports that a man from Ennis has died after getting into difficulty while swimming off the Co Clare coast yesterday evening. According to RTÉ News, the 51-year-old man was swimming at Whitestrand off Spanish Point around…
#FLOODING - The clean-up has begun across Cork city and county after heavy flooding over the past two days resulted in millions of euro worth of damage, as The Irish Times reports. Debris blocking a rubbish screen on a new…
#DEEPWATER OIL - Tullow Oil has struck oil off the Ivory Coast in an encouraging development for the Irish-founded oil exploration company, Bloomberg reports. The UK-based firm says its Paon-1X deepwater exploration well encountered 31 metres of net oil in…
#NEWS UPDATE - BBC News reports that Carrickfergus Sailing Club in Co Antrim has been destroyed in a fire overnight. Firefighters were called to the scene at Rodgers Quay shortly after 11.30pm last night Friday 22 June. No injuries have…
#NEWS UPDATE - The body found in a river in the Polish town of Bydgoszcz has been confirmed to be that of missing Irish football fan James Nolan. As RTÉ News reports, Nolan was last seen in the early hours…
#NEWS UPDATE - A Northern Irish sailing charity has been fined by a court for failing to keep proper records, following an investigation into a sinking incident two years ago. BBC News reports that the activities of the Ocean Youth…
#PRESIDENT REOPENS MARITIME MUSEUM- President Michael D. Higgins officially performed the reopening ceremony of the €4m restored National Maritime Museum of Ireland in Dun Laoghaire today, reports Jehan Ashmore. An ecumenical service was held by Canon Victor Stacey, Dean of…
#IRISH SAILING UPDATE – Ireland's out of the Commodore's Cup, Team Toy Yot are sailors of the month, watch out today for big tides, there's a full moon, diamond sailing on Loch Fyne, we have the pics, a Bangor couple…
