In case you are wondering what makes Coast Guard volunteers give up their time to go on the water and ask people to wear safety equipment here is a sad extract from today’s ‘Irish Independent’
AÂ loving hug ended in tragedy for a young couple, an inquest heard yesterday.The man drowned after his girlfriend stood up to [...]
The fishing vessel ‘Skomer’ sank at the west pier wall in Howth Harbour last night. She is a 9mt razor fishing boat. Nobody was on board at the time. The Harbourmaster is coordinating the refloating of the vessel with the owner and The Irish Coast Guard is monitoring the vessel for pollution contamination.
No you weren’t seeing things if you think you saw some Howth CG members on the Shannon last weekend. Paul and Declan, two members of the unit were down on the Shannon last weekend along with ‘Grainne‘ our boat. They were assisting the soon to be Killaloe/Ballina Coast Guard unit with Lifejacket Compliance Monitoring. The members were [...]
Howth Coast Guard wish to advise that particularly high astronomical tides are predicted to occur at all Irish Coastal locations during the months of September, October and November 2006.
These tides are close to the highest tides which can be predicted to occur under average meteorological conditions and any combination of astronomical conditions. They occur generally [...]
Scheduled Wednesday night training took place yesterday evening. Missing person coastal search techniques were practiced along with 8 new team members joining us, some for their first night.
Claremont beach was used with a scenario featuring a witness report at 1955hrs of an inflatable boat sinking 800m off-shore with 2 POB (People on Board). Over an [...]
Yesterday’s rockfall rescue has been featured in both the Irish Times & Irish Independent today.
Text from the Irish Independent story as follows:
Youth (16) injured in cliff plunge drama
A TEENAGE boy suffered head, hand and ankle injuries after he fell down a cliff and was then struck by stones he dislodged.
The accident occurred on cliffs at [...]
This evening MRCC requested a number of the team members to attend to 16 year old male with head injuries near the Bailey Lighthouse. Arriving on-scene simultaneously with 2 members of the RNLI lifeboat-crew, the teams provided first-aid while an ambulance travelled to the location.
The teenager, on holiday with his family, had been climbing on [...]
At 20.09 tonight Howth CG unit responded to a report of two swimmers in difficulty off Claremont beach. The full team responded along with Howth ILB. After arriving on scene Howth ILB picked up the two swimmers and returned them to shore. They were quite a way offshore but were not in distress and were [...]
Howth CG boat Grainne was out on Patrol over this weekend and on both Saturday and Sunday Grainne assisted vessels in trouble. On Saturday Grainne and her crew assisted a Rib which had trouble with her engine and could not start it. She was taken in tow back to Bray harbour. En route the engine [...]
Howth were tasked at 01.21 this morning to check reports of a yacht with a sail up in the Baldoyle estuary. An unusual place and time for such an occurance. A small dinghy with a sail was sighted and it was moored in the estuary near the church. The craft was monitored and nothing unusual [...]
