Search & Rescue, Water Safety - News from the Marine Safety Agencies
#RNLI - Red Bay RNLI has rescued three men yesterday afternoon (Sunday 1 November) after they got into difficulty on a 4m speedboat which was drifting out to sea off the North Coast. The volunteer lifeboat crew was alerted by…
#Rescue - Kayakers paddled to the rescue of a man in his 60s spotted floating in the sea off Co Clare on Saturday morning (31 October). According to The Irish Times, the man – thought to have fallen into the…
Yesterday marked 100 years since Rosslare RNLI saved six crews in 24 hours. As vessels were being blown into dangerous...
Posted by RNLI on Sunday, 1 November 2015
100 Years Since Rosslare Lifeboat's Daring Rescues In Hallowe'en Gales
1st November 2015 RNLI Lifeboats
#RNLI - Today – 1 November 2015 – marks 100 years since the end one of the most daring days in the history of Rosslare RNLI, when the station's volunteers rescued six crews within a single 24-hour period. With the…
An extensive search is being carried out of an area south west of the Isle of Man after an emergency code was received from an unknown aircraft. UK Coastguard is overseeing the search after the Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre at…
#BeachRescue - Irish Water Safety has posted a compilation video from last month's National Beach Rescue Championships, which took place at Spanish Point in Co Clare. As previously reported on Afloat.ie, the beach at Spanish Point was among the safest…
#RNLI - Wexford RNLI's volunteer lifeboat crew rescued a man within a minute of him entering the water near Wexford Bridge on Wednesday afternoon (28 October). The boat was just about to launch for an assessment of two prospective crew…
#RNLI - Holyhead RNLI lifeboat volunteers' training turned into a real-life rescue last night after distress calls were heard from a boat carrying three men a baby in the Irish Sea. At 6pm crew members were at the lifeboat station…
#Rescue - A woman is in stable condition in hospital after she was rescued from a sea cliff in Islandmagee on Tuesday (27 October) an operation that "wasn’t straightforward", as the News Letter reports. It's believed the woman had been…
#Rescue - The Connacht Tribune reports that 10 were rescued from a twin-mast sailing boat on Lough Corrib last night after the vessel hit rocks near the village of Cong in Co Mayo. All 10 people on board, including four…
#RNLI - Lifeboats from Bangor, Donaghadee and Larne were launched last night (Tuesday 27 October) as part of a major operation after a flight out of Belfast declared an emergency. Police, fire and ambulance crews were also involved in the…
Rosslare Harbour Lifeboat Diverts From Exercise To Assist Injured Fisherman
27th October 2015 RNLI Lifeboats
#RNLI - Rosslare Harbour RNLI's volunteer lifeboat crew participating in an exercise on Sunday morning (25 October) in Rosslare Bay were diverted to a fishing vessel with an injured crewman on board. The fishing boat was a mile northeast of…
#RNLI - Enniskillen RNLI is looking for new volunteer crew members to join its search and rescue service on both Upper and Lower Lough Erne in Co Fermanagh. The lifeboat station currently has 40 volunteers to cover its inshore service…
#RNLI - Organisers of the Athlone River Festival and Food Village have presented a cheque for €850 to Lough Ree RNLI. The Athlone River Festival & Food Village took place on 12-13 September and included myriad activities showcasing Athlone’s culinary,…
Where is Bluebird? Search On For Source of Distress Call From 'Yacht in Trouble' off Cork Harbour
18th October 2015 Rescue
As part of an effort to find the source of a Mayday call off Cork Harbour today, owners of boats named ‘Bluebird’ around Ireland have been contacted by the Coastguard. No yacht has been found after a major six-hour search…
#RNLI - Union Hall RNLI was paged at 6.31am this morning (Thursday 15 October) to reports of a flashing strobe light south of Rabbit Island at the entrance to Glandore Harbour. Union Hall’s inshore lifeboat Maritime Nation launched at 06.39…
#Budget2016 - €93m has been earmarked for Ireland's maritime programme for the next year - a 7% increase on 2015 spending – in the latest Budget announced yesterday (Tuesday 13 October). Key among the targets of this funding, according to…
