Howth Coast Guard - A voluntary coastal rescue unit of the Irish Coast Guard.

Malahide Sea Scouts Blessing of the boats.

With the sea scouts celebrating 100 years the 9th Port Sea Scouts, Malahide held a reception and blessing of the boats at their newly renovated slip today. The Coast Guard were honoured to attend, a boat and ground crew from Howth attended along with a fly by from Rescue 116. A collection was held for the Howth RNLI who were also in attendance.

We wish them a safe summer season ahead. More details of their activities at www.malahideseascouts.ie.

Person assisted from Red Rock, Sutton.

This afternoon (11th May) members of the public alerted Gardai and Coast Guard to a woman needing assistance on rocks surrounded by water at Red Rock in Sutton. Howth Lifeboat along with Coast Guard units from Howth and Rescue 116 were tasked. Rescue 116 winched the casualty aboard and transferred them to hospital.

Incident 19/12

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Search & Cardiac Casualty Stretcher Carry Out Exercise

25th April 2012 - Briefing received: "112 caller with chest pains, is near an aerial on Howth Hill, went unresponsive while on the call". The team was staggered out of the station to simulate a realistic situation requiring initial response incident leadership to be undertaken by senior members until an Officer in Charge arrived on-scene.

Report of Trawler In Difficulty

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HOWTH HARBOUR, DUBLIN - The National Maritime Operations Centre (NMOC) recieved a phone-call from a concerned member of the public that a trawler coming into Howth Harbour in gale conditions appeared to be in distress in Howth sound.

A member of the Howth Coast Guard unit was tasked to make contact with the caller to get an accurate description, get a visual contact with the trawler, and try and identify the boat.

A visual of the boat with the same description was aquired east of Howth Harbour, identified by AIS, and contact made by VHF. The boat had aborted an attempt to enter Howth Harbour in the conditions and returned out to sea.

Conditions on scene: Rain and North East Gale force 8, occasionally strong gale force 9.

Incident 18/12

Mayday Mayday Mayday

For the 2nd year running the Coast Guard are running a "Mayday" open day at certain stations around the country.

Howth Coast Guard station will be open this weekend on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th from 2pm to 6pm to show case the role of the Coast Guard. It's a chance to see the vehicles and equipment used and meet the volunteer crews. Kids water safety packs will be available to any happy faces that show up.

This weekend Howth will also host the Dublin Bay prawn festival so there will be plenty of food and entertainment in the harbour and village.

Persons assisted at Portmarnock and Howth Today

Incident 16/12

At 14.40 today (Tues 24^th) Gardai requested the assistance of Howth Coast Guard and Howth Inshore Lifeboat who were tasked to reports of a person requiring assistance near Balscadden. The person was located by Gardai and accompanied back to Balscadden car park uninjured and Howth Coast Guard unit was stood down and returned to base.

Incident 17/12

Later that day at 5pm the team responded along with Howth Rnli, Dublin Fire Brigade, CG Helicopter Rescue 116 and Gardai to Portmarnock beach to a person in difficulty in the water. The person was rescued by Howth Inshore Lifeboat and brought to the beach before being transferred to hospital by paramedics.

Flare Reported Dublin Bay

Yesterday evening at 19.30 Howth Coast Guard were asked to check on a report of a flare sighted in Dublin Bay. A volunteer unit checked the shoreline and Dublin Bay from land. Visability was good but nothing was seen. Stood down by Dublin NMOC at 20.10.

Incident 15/12

Missing Person Howth Summit

Yesterday (Tues) at 9pm Gardai contacted the Coast Guard for assistance with a missing person search at Howth Summit.

Howth Rnli lifeboat, Coast Guard helicopter rescue 116 and Howth Coast Guard were tasked. Assistance was also provided by a K9 Dog Search team from Meath Civil Defence.

Teams carried out a detailed search of beaches, cliff paths and buildings along the coastline. Before midnight the search was suspended until first light.

At 6am today (Wed) all assets resumed the search until 10am. A further search was carried out in the afternoon at low tide. Unfortunately the missing person hasn't been located, Gardai are continuing to investigate.

Update - Sadly a body discovered on Portmarnock Beach has been identified as the missing person.

Incident 14/12

Person entering water at Portmarnock

At 10.20 today, Sunday 8th April, the Coast Guard were alerted to a fully clothed person entering the water at Portmarnock Beach. Gardai, Howth Coast Guard and the Coast Guard Helicopter were tasked.

The call transpired to be a false alarm with good intent.

Incident 13/12

Trapped Walker assisted from Cliffs.

Shortly before 10 am (Saturday 31st March) the Coast Guard emergency operations centre were contacted by a lady who had got into difficulty while descending from the cliff path to the shoreline near Broad Strand on Howth Head.

Gardai and the Howth Coast Guard Cliff Rescue team were tasked. Upon arrival it was realised the female walker was twenty feet down a steep embankment surrounded by thick briars and undergrowth.

The team immediately set up a full rescue climb and a climber from the team was sent down to the casualty. In what was difficult terrain the rescue climber got to the casualty and assessed her; she was distressed but other wise not suffering from any serious injury.

It was quickly decided the safest extraction would be via helicopter and the Coast Guard helicopter, Rescue 116, was requested. The helicopter dropped a winch man who put the casualty into a harness, Rescue 116 then returned and extracted the female. With the helipad at the Bailey lighthouse cleared by a Coast Guard ground crew the helicopter landed and handed her over to paramedics for transport to hospital.

Incident 12/12