A SEARCH and RESCUE Exercise similar to the exercise we held in Howth recently will be held at Greystones, Co. Wicklow on Sunday 6th August 2006 at 4 pm. This will involve a live exercise using: Greystones & Howth Coast Guard Units, Coast Guard Helicopter Rescue 116, Wicklow RNLI lifeboats and the Civil Defence. All [...]
Howth CG boat Grainne was out on Sunday last monitoring Lifejacket Compliance. The crew reported back disappointedly that the level of compliance was dropping back on previous levels. Specific incidents included a rib out from Howth with five people on board but only one with a PFD and a rib with one adult and one [...]
Howth Coast Guard were tasked today to investigate and remove TEPs(Time Expired Pyrotechnics) from Malahide. They were dumped in a rubbish bin at the Marina. Howth CG cannot stress enough how stupid and dangerous it is disposing of these flares in this manner. Flares are classed as explosive material and should be disposed of in [...]
This story was published in the latest issue of the “Northside People” newspaper:
Coast Guard involved in rescue drama
HOWTH Lifeboat, Dublin Fire Brigade and Howth Coast Guard were involved in a dramatic cliff rescue at Balscadden Bay, Howth, last week. Two members of the public fell from cliffs just under Balscadden car park on Thursday, July [...]
The following story featured in the Irish Independent on Friday 14th of July after Thursday’s rescue.
Boy miraculously survives cliff fall
A 13-YEAR-old boy last night fell 20ft down a cliff and landed on rocks after he lost his footing while casting a fishing rod yesterday.
The boy was with a 14-year-old friend, perched on a ledge about [...]
The team were paged at 1510hrs today to assist a woman on ‘Jamesons Beach’ on Howth Head. Arriving with a very quick response, members of the Coast Guard team discovered the woman had fallen 5-6m over the cliff edge off the steep steps descending to the beach.
Coordinating with ‘Rescue Helicopter 116′, the team evacuated the [...]
Photos from the Howth Festival SAR Demo are available online.
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The team gathered today to put our equipment on show at the Howth Peninsula Festival. The Stationhouse was open to the public with the jeep, 2 equipment vans, 2 boats, the quad & trailer outside. Inside, a scaled down version of the cliff-top rescue setup had been laid out for view, a table of safety [...]
The team were paged today at 1728hrs. In a joint effort between Howth Lifeboat, Dublin Fire Brigade & Howth Coast Guard Unit - two members of the public were rescued from a cliff fall below Balscadden carpark. Howth Inshore Lifeboat dropped two crew members at the bottom of the cliff while a member of the [...]
Today the Howth Coast Guard boat went out to meet and support the Round Ireland Swim Expedition team who were entering Howth Harbour for the night. Best of luck to the team, please do sponsor them if you have the chance.
Please enjoy our video from today (press play):
The team received a photo and mention [...]
