Search & Rescue, Water Safety - News from the Marine Safety Agencies
#Rescue - Two tourists cut off by the rising tide at the Giant's Causeway were rescued by coastguard teams on Tuesday evening (18 August), as the Belfast Telegraph reports. One of the two men, tourists from France and Italy, had…
#RNLI - The Portrush all-weather lifeboat was launched on Monday (17 August) to reports of a yacht in difficulty off Ballintoy, three miles north of Sheep Island. The lifeboat was launched around 2.45pm on a beautiful warm day on the…
#RNLI - Both Wicklow RNLI lifeboats launched at 11.30am yesterday morning (Tuesday 18 August) after the Irish Coast Guard received a report of a swimmer in difficulties at the Long Rock near Silver Strand beach. The inshore lifeboat was quickly…
Lifeguards rescued 173 casualties from our beaches, rivers and lakes last month, that is 240 less than last July. There were 278 children lost and reunited with their parents. There were another 8,665 accidents prevented by the proactive actions of…
#rnli – Courtmacsherry RNLI Lifeboat rescued five crew from a 22–ft speedboat off the Inner Barrel Rocks near the Old Head of Kinsale writes Vicent O'Donovan. The above picture shows the Lifeboat crew pumping out water from the speedboat. All…
#RNLI - A crew member on a cross-channel ferry was taken aboard the Donaghadee RNLI lifeboat Saxon after a medical emergency in Belfast Lough last Thursday night (13 August). RNLI volunteer lifeboat crew assisted as the woman was lowered from the…
#RNLI - Following a pager alert at 9.25pm yesterday evening (Sunday 16 August), Arklow RNLI’s volunteers prepared to launch the all-weather lifeboat Ger Tigchlearr to assist in a search for a cyclist reported to have fallen into the Avoca River.…
#lifeboat – The honour of officially opening the RNLI's new All-Weather Lifeboat Centre at the charity's headquarters in Poole this Friday (21 August) will fall on the shoulders of the two youngest fully qualified all-weather volunteer lifeboat crew in the…
#WaterSafety - Dangerous cliff-jumping is putting lives at risk says one lifeboat volunteer after he rescued a young woman from drowning. According to the Sunday Independent, off-duty Dun Laoghaire RNLI man Wayne Farrell spotted the woman unconscious in the water…
'Nothing Is Going To Happen To Me' Among Excuses From Boaters Skipping Lifejackets
15th August 2015 Water Safety
#WaterSafety - There's never a good reason to go out on the water without a lifejacket. But as TheJournal.ie reports, the Irish Coast Guard still hears plenty of excuses. Chief among them is the old chestnut, "I have lifejackets on…
#RNLI - Union Hall RNLI's volunteer lifeboat crew launched last night (Thursday 13 August) after a member of the public reported a flare in the West Galley Head area and raised the alarm. Valentia Coast Guard tasked Union Hall RNLI…
#RNLI - Skerries RNLI towed a yacht with two men on board to safety on Sunday evening (9 August) after the vessel suffered engine failure. At 7.30pm Skerries RNLI were tasked by Dublin Coast Guard to assist the small yacht…
#Rescue - Downhill beach lifeguard Ray Cunningham has been hailed a hero after racing to the rescue of an eight-year-old bodyboarder caught in a rip current off the Causeway Coast yesterday (Tuesday 11 August). Cunningham was on patrol when he…
#RNLI - Howth RNLI volunteers launched their all-weather lifeboat on Sunday (9 August) to assist a 23ft sailing boat when its lone occupant became violently seasick and incapacitated. The lifeboat was launched at 8.15pm and located the casualty vessel just…
#RNLI - Portrush RNLI and lifeguards at Portstewart Strand worked together yesterday (Sunday 9 August) to help a person who got into difficulty on a jetski. Portstewart lifeguards were first called to assist the jetski but because of the large…
#lifesaving – Ireland's top Lifeguards have won 18 medals in Wales at the European Lifesaving Championships. Ireland have never won so many medals at and International event before. Medal Winners were:Bernard Cahill from Clare won Gold in the Surf Swim…
