Howth Coast Guard have been advised of a product recall concerning some 2008 and 2009 year models of Yamaha Water Vehicles (Jet Skis).
Yamaha Water Vehicles, models FX1800-G/H and FX1800A-G/H.
Risk: Fire and Explosion - In the affected watercraft, there is the potential for the fuel hose to come loose from the pipe joint at the fuel [...]
Howth CG were tasked this morning at 02.00 to assist a motorist stuck in the mud in Malahide estuary. While assembling at the station the unit received a call that the motorist had freed the car so the team were stood down.
Incident 40/08
Drogheda Coast Guard Unit, one of the busiest units in the country, have launched their own website. Check it out and see what they are up to.
At 13.30 today Howth CG were tasked to Dollymount beach to investigate a report of a kitesurfer in trouble offshore. The second call to Dollymount in 24 hours. Dun Laoghaire ILB and Coast Guard Helicopter Rescue 116 were also tasked. A kite had been seen offshore and it was suspected a person was in difficulty. [...]
DOLLYMOUNT, DUBLIN (17th November 2008) - At dusk tonight ~16:25, volunteers at Howth Coast Guard Unit were requested to assist in the recovery of a casualty from the sea at Dollymount beach, Dublin. The casualty had been kitesurfing and become tangled in the lines of the kite. With darkness fast approaching and unable to return [...]
DOLLYMOUNT, DUBLIN (12th November 2008) - Tonight, Howth Coast Guard members gathered for a training exercise on Dollymount Sand Dunes in North Dublin. Team members were issued a brief for a missing jogger ‘for exercise only’ and instructed to find him using illumination flares from the three search teams Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie.
White illumination flares [...]
