UPDATE 31st Oct - 10:20am: The casualty from the incident has been safely located this morning in a village outside of Howth.
Howth Coast Guard were paged at 2315hrs last night (30th Oct) to search for a male who had been reported missing. His car was located in the car park at Balscadden on the Howth [...]
On Wednesday night the team assembled at the station and had a training session where we practiced tying off techniques for climbing and walking casualty recovery. It is very important that all the team is familiar and comfortable with these as it may be in the dark and in bad weather that they are called [...]
The annual mass for lives lost at sea will take place on Saturday November the 4th at 3pm in the Sea Angling Club on the West Pier in Howth Harbour. All are welcome.
Howth CG were tasked by MRCC Dublin at 23.55 hrs last night after a report of a youth in the sea in Clontarf between the slipway and Castle Ave. The Deputy Area Officer requested a full team callout and the team assembled at the station. Meanwhile one of our members was at the scene and [...]
Howth CG were tasked at 15.27 today to a 999 report of a kitesurfer in trouble off the Burrow beach. A volunteer who was near arrived quickly to find the surfer had just made it ashore to the beach. He was kitesurfing alone in an offshore wind and couldn’t make it ashore. He eventually made [...]
Howth CG were tasked tonight at 18.15 to investigate reports of a grounded yacht at the mouth of the Malahide estuary. MRCC Dublin could not raise it on the vhf radio and so needed to check for all ok. One member from the unit living near the scene proceeded and got visual contact with the [...]
Howth were tasked at 00.22 tonight over concerns for a beached yacht on Sutton strand. It had broken away from it’s mooring in Sutton Creek and had drifted with the high tide onto the beach at the church. The boat was made secure with it’s own anchor and will be checked in the morning at [...]
Winters coming and Howth CG were out last night cliff training at the Baily and as you can see from the pictures it’s getting dark early.
Many of our callouts are after dark so we have to be comfortable working in low light situations and safety is of paramount importance.
Howth CG were tasked this evening at 18.16 to a report of a missing kitesurfer. He had been training with a group on the Burrow beach in Sutton and had not been seen for 45 minutes. A friend called the Coast Guard on 999/112 with his concerns and Howth CG were tasked. Howth CG asked [...]
Howth CG boat ‘Grainne‘ and four crew were out yesterday and at the request of Coast Guard Helicopter ‘Mike Echo Sierra’(Rescue 116) ‘wet winch’ training was the order of the day. Grainne supplied a crew member to be winched from the water up to the helicopter as part of the heli crews required training.
Conditions on [...]
