Search & Rescue, Water Safety - News from the Marine Safety Agencies
#Rescue - Three teenagers were rescued by Limerick emergency services on Friday night (11 September) as their boat drifted out of the city along the River Shannon, as BreakingNews.ie reports. The small fishing boat has experienced engine trouble and run…
RNLI Is Official Charity Partner Of 2015 Guinness Cork Jazz Festival
11th September 2015 RNLI Lifeboats
#RNLI - The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival has chosen the RNLI to be its 2015 official charity partner. The announcement was made in Cork city yesterday (Thursday 10 September) as the RNLI launched a fundraising prize draw that will see…
#MarineNotice - Mariners in the waters of Ireland's Exclusive Economic Zone are advised to keep watch for debris that may fall into the sea after a pending Soyuz rocket launch between today 11 September and Monday 21 September. Marine Notice…
Baltimore Lifeboat leaving Baltimore harbourBaltimore Lifeboat 'Alan Massey' leaving Baltimore harbour on a service today. The alb was launched to act as back-up for Baltimore ilb, which was tasked to go the aid of a boat that went onto rocks on the island at Tragumna. The male occupant of the 18ft punt managed to scramble ashore onto the island. When the ilb crewed of Youen Jacob, Kieran Collins and Jason Pavrey arrived on scene they dropped an anchor, so that they could safely veer the lifeboat through a heavy swell and wave washed shoreline to rescue the boats occupant. The casualty was then passed over to Baltimore alb for his comfort and safety on the journey back to his departure point. The lifeboats were aided by Toe Head CG who assisted in recovery of the boat, which was then towed by Baltimore ilb to its mooring in Trá na mBhó. The alb was crewed by Aidan Bushe coxswain, Cathal Cottrell mechanic, Sean McCarthy, Don O' Donovan and Ronnie Carthy.
Posted by Baltimore Lifeboat Station on Thursday, 10 September 2015
Baltimore All Weather Lifeboat (ALB) 'Alan Massey' was launched today to act as back-up for Baltimore inshore lifeboat, which was tasked to go the aid of a boat that went onto rocks on the island at Tragumna. The male occupant…
Irish Water Safety's National Beach Rescue Championships at Spanish Point Beach
10th September 2015 Water Safety
Spanish Point beach in Clare will be amongst the safest in Ireland this Saturday when 152 Lifeguards from nine counties test their skills at Irish Water Safety's National Beach Rescue Championships. Simulated emergency rescue scenarios incorporating running, swimming, kayaking and…
Personal Beacons For Kayakers Recommended In Report On Inchavore Drowning Tragedy
10th September 2015 MCIB
#MCIB - The official report into the death of a kayaker on a Wicklow river last year recommends that anyone kayaking a river of Grade 3 or above should carry a personal locator beacon. As previously reported on Afloat.ie, Shane…
#Coastguard - Ireland's coastguard is about to get a boost to its IT infrastructure thanks to its new computer system for co-ordinating rescues nationwide. As the Irish Examiner reports, Critical Software won the Irish Coast Guard's tender for an incident…
#RNLI - Galway RNLI's lifeboat launched yesterday evening (Tuesday 8 September 2015) to rescue two people from a 25-foot powerboat that got into difficulty off Salthill on Galway Bay. The cabin cruiser went aground west of Blackrock Tower at about…
#Rescue - Howth's coastguard unit rescued a man on Howth Head who became trapped on a cliff ledge some five storeys above the beach below yesterday evening (Monday 7 September). Unable to find a way off the beach, the man…
#RNLI - The Courtmacsherry RNLI all-weather lifeboat was called out at 2.20am this morning (Monday 7 September) to go to the aid of a swimmer that had got into difficulty in a dangerous rip current off Garrettstown Strand near the…
Arklow RNLI comes to the assistance of large mussel dredger with 4 Persons aboard.Following an alert by pager at...
Posted by Arklow RNLI on Sunday, 6 September 2015
#RNLI - Following an alert by pager on Saturday afternoon (5 September), Arklow RNLI’s lifeboat Ger Tigchleaar was launched within minutes to the aid of the casualty vessel that was reported to be taking on water and at risk of…
Lifeboat crew with Larne RNLI launched their all-weather lifeboat this afternoon (Saturday 5 September) at 3.05pm following a report that a 24 ft yacht with three people onboard was in difficulty south of Muck Island. The request to launch was…
#RNLI - The new Tramore RNLI D-class lifeboat D-781 will be officially named the Isabella Purchase during a ceremony at the National Lifeguard Training Centre in Tramore on Saturday 12 September at 3pm. The lifeboat will be named during a…
#RNLI - Following last week's callout to a yacht troubled by rough weather, Larne RNLI assisted four men on another yacht that got into difficulty in the early hours of yesterday morning (Sunday 30 August). The volunteer crew launched their all-weather lifeboat under coxswain Norman Surplus at…
#RNLI - A man in his 70s has died after a boat capsized off the south Wexford coast yesterday evening (Saturday 29 August). But nine others who were travelling on the 18ft leisure craft were rescued by Kilmore Quay RNLI…
#Rescue - BreakingNews.ie reports that a swimmer is in a stable condition after he was rescued from the sea off Co Wexford yesterday (Thursday 27 August). The casualty, who got into difficulty in strong currents, was winched from the water near Blackwater by Waterford's coastguard helicopter Rescue 117 and…
