Hello and welcome aboard this week’s edition of Seascapes – your maritime programme, we’ll be talking to the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, Vice Admiral Mark Mellett at Naval Headquarters in Haulbowline about the inaugural inter services Beaufort Cup which is being held as part of Volvo Cork Week......this weekend divers from around the country are gathering at Hook Head for the South East Rally.... Valentia Island Celebrates 150 Years of Transatlantic Communications with the BT Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Festival which takes place until this Sunday...we’ll be talking to Dr Martina Prendergast of the Ryan Institute at the National University of Ireland Galway about the SeaScienceApp .............first this week on Seascapes , last Sunday was Sea Sunday and we went along to the new Seafarers Centre in the heart of Dublin Port where the Sea Sunday Ecumenical Service was hosted by The Apostleship of the Sea –Stella Maris and Reverend Father Padraig O Cuill of the Capuchin Order and Reverend William Black , Church of Ireland of The Mission to Seafarers –Flying Angel ......one of the first people we met attending amongst many regular Seascapes listeners was historian author and photographer Pat Sweeney ......
author of Liffey Ships and Shipbuilding ...... We also met up with Mission to Seafarers volunteer Bill Douglas
Next to the chairman of the Mission to Seafarers ....Ed Taylor
Next here on Seascapes to the Reverend Willie Black of the Mission to Seafarers who with Father Padraig O Cuill concelebrated the Ecumenical Service in the Seafarers Centre
From the Reverend William Black to Father Padraig O Cuill...
Our thanks to Rose Kearney of Stella Maris; Dermot Desmond of Mission to Seafarers for their hospitality and the many other Seascapes regulars including Joe Varley and Conor Galvin , we’ll be hearing from Conor on next Friday’s edition about the Robert Erskine Childers O.N.E.......
Next to the western seaboard and our Galway Studios to hear from Dr Martina Prendergast , Strategic Development Manager, Ryan Institute at NUI Galway......she explained how the SeaScience App came into being , its free to download from the Apple app store and Google play store for android , just search for sea science.....
Valentia Island Celebrates 150 Years of Transatlantic Communications with the BT Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Festival which takes place until this Sunday 17th in Valentia
The festival will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first successful transatlantic cable between Valentia Island and Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, laid in 1866 to connect Europe with the new world for the first time.....you can read more on the Seascapes webpage .....
The Marine Institute will host a third public information meeting on the Galway Bay Marine and Renewable Energy Test Site, on Thursday next 21st July at 7:30pm in the Connemara Coast Hotel, Furbo, Galway. The meeting is part of the public consultation to ensure full information is provided on the Marine Institute’s foreshore lease application to upgrade test and demonstration facilities at the Galway Bay Marine and Renewable Energy Test Site.
Next to Volvo Cork Week and the inaugural inter services Beaufort Cup , on Tuesday night we headed to the Naval Base in Haulbowline to speak with the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, Vice Admiral Mark Mellett.........about the Beaufort Cup and congratulated the two crews drawn from the Defence Forces one aboard Joker 2 which won after handicaps were applied –and line honours were won by Irish Defence Forces skippered by Tom Roche they competed in the Fastnet overnight race which took place earlier this week...........
Vice Admiral Mark Mellett , Chief of Staff of The Defence Forces on The Beaufort Cup , we’ll have more from Vice Admiral Mellett on the humanitarian work being done in the Mediterranean by our valiant crews......as the LE Roisin returned to the Naval base earlier today ......
We’ll have the results of The Beaufort Cup posted on the Seascapes webpage.......
Fresh from setting a stunning new Round Ireland record last month Musandam-Oman Sail have set their sights on another milestone record in the Transat Quebec- St Malo with a match against the world’s largest Trimaran Spindrift 2 expected to push them to the limit...........
Swim Ireland will host their National Open Water Championships – 5K and 10K and Swim for a Mile Open Water (750m & 1500m) on Sunday August 7th at Coosan Point in Athlone.
Congratulations to Michael Martin and his team on The Titanic Trail in Cobh who have been awarded a Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence ... well done to all ....
In Diving the South East Rally off Hook Head takes place this weekend, thanks to Denny Lawlor whom we met earlier this year in Athlone who was in touch with details ...
“That’s it for this week here on Seascapes, you can read and see more on the Seascapes webpage www.rte.ie/radio1/seascapes on the sound desk this week Niall O’ Sullivan, next week here on your martitime programme we feature the recent Shore Shots Festival in Strandhill in Sligo with the intrepid trio of Laura Hannon ; Sarah Murphy and Ron Coveney talking to surfers such as Easkey Britton ; Free Diving and much more... Conor Galvin has details on the newly formed Robert Erskine Childers ONE ; Vice Admiral Mark Mellett on the remarkable humanitarian rescue work being done by the Defence Forces in the Mediterranean , all that and much more , until next Friday night, tight lines and fair sailing. “
Marcus Connaughton
Presenter / Producer
