Search & Rescue, Water Safety - News from the Marine Safety Agencies
#RNLI - Skerries RNLI launched shortly before 7pm yesterday evening (Thursday 27 June) to assist an 11m yacht with one person on board that had run aground north of Rush Harbour. The Dublin branch of the Irish Coast Guard requested…
#rnli – Clifden RNLI have this week taken delivery of a new Atlantic 85 lifeboat at the station. The lifeboat is named Joyce King and will be replacing the Atlantic 75 lifeboat that has been on service in the Galway…
#MCIB - Marine investigators have reiterated the importance of boaters informing people ashore of planned trips in their report into the drowning of a dinghy sailor in West Cork last autumn. As reported last August on Afloat.ie, an afternoon sail…
#MCIB - Overloading of the boat deck and a missing hatch at the stern may have caused a fatal loss of buoyancy that led to the drowning of two fishermen off Co Clare last year, according to the official report…
#RNLI - Donaghadee RNLI has rescued a man after his boat got into difficulty off the Co Down coast. In good weather conditions, the volunteer crew launched the all-weather lifeboat at 3.07pm yesterday (Wednesday 26 June) to go to the…
#rnli – The Wicklow inshore lifeboat was launched at 1800hrs last night after the Coast Guard received a call for assistance from a small boat with four people onboard. The alarm was raised after the boats propeller got fouled in…
#RNLI - Skerries RNLI in North Co Dublin were requested to launch by the Irish Coast Guard on Monday evening (24 June) following a call from a concerned member of the public regarding a group of people walking back to shore…
#kayak – A kayaker has been located safe and well after he capsized in the Gulf of Corryvreckan. Belfast Coastguard was contacted by a local fishing vessel just after 3.30pm this afternoon, reporting that they had spotted the kayak upside down…
#RNLI - New Zealand man Greg Murphy and his wife Anne have made an emotional journey to Arklow RNLI to visit the lifeboat station where more than a century ago the lifeboat crew set out in heavy seas and torrential…
#RNLI - While on exercise on Sunday morning (23 June 2013), Larne RNLI’s inshore lifeboat was requested to divert and investigate reports that a boat was drifting out to sea in Larne Lough. The 11m wooden boat had nobody onboard and…
Coastguard Launches Children's Wristband Campaign For Safety Near The Water
24th June 2013 Coastguard
#Coastguard - The Irish Coast Guard (IRCG) has launched a new summer water safety campaign designed to protect children on beaches and near coastlines. The IRCG is distributing thousands of free waterproof wristbands under the ‘Give Us A Hand’ campaign.…
#rnli – Lifeboat crew with Red Bay RNLI have successfully recovered a calf after it fell down a cliff face yesterday afternoon. The alarm was raised at 1.45pm when a local farmer contacted Belfast Coastguard requesting assistance after one of…
#rnli – Dun Laoghaire's RNLI inshore lifeboat co-ordinated a search on Killiney Bay after a windsurfer sail was spotted drifting south of Dalkey Island by a passing yacht. Seven boats searched the area with the R116 helicopter which joined the…
#rnli – Following a major search and rescue operation on Lough Derg last night for 18 rowing boats the lifeboat (RNLI) at Dromineer was launched again this morning in a separate response to assist young canoeists in difficulty in heavy…
Major Lough Derg Search & Rescue When 18 Rowing Boats Get into Difficulty
21st June 2013 RNLI Lifeboats
#lifeboat – Lifeboat crew with Lough Derg RNLI launched this evening after eighteen rowing boats got into difficulty at Parker's Point. The rowers, who had set out from Terryglass, at the northern end of the lake, at 2pm, were en…
#RNLI - Larne RNLI rescued an unconscious man who was found a short distance from the shore at Larne Lough last night (Thursday 20 June). The volunteer crew launched their inshore lifeboat Hannahbella Ferguson following a request by Belfast Coastguard…
