Today at midday, Howth Coast Guard responded to the upper cliff sections near Howth Summit, where a car and driver had sustained a heavy impact after leaving the path and sliding approx 100m steeply down-hill to the cliff edge. After locating the car the sole occupant was stabilised by paramedics and then removed from the [...]
The volunteers from Howth Coast Guard spent last weekend on their introductory training course for the new TAC 07 Coast Guard climbing system. It’s a new international standard cliff and heights rescue system developed in Ireland especially for the Coast Guard. It updates the present system using new climbing equipment and updated technologies.
24 volunteers started [...]
IRELAND’S EYE ISLAND, NORTH DUBLIN - Today Howth Coast Guard unit undertook an exercise in remote technical rescue. With D-Class rescue boat cover provided by Drogheda Coast Guard, the unit attempted a number of different island rescue scenarios.
Remote technical rescue equipment packaging and transfer.
Full-team cliff mobilisation by boat.
Mid-cliff high-angle rope rescue with recovery into boat.
High-angle [...]
BALSCADDEN, HOWTH - While briefing for a training session in area search techniques and cliff recoveries this morning, Howth Coast Guard Unit were paged to attend the scene of a body sighting on the rocks at Balscadden. Rescue Helicopter 116 was also on exercise and quickly diverted to locate the casualty. The Irish Coast Guard [...]
HOWTH HILL, DUBLIN - Howth Coast Guard undertook a joint exercise with St John’s Ambulance Brigade and visiting members of Drogheda Coast Guard unit on Wednesday night. The night was split into two exercises with different objectives.
Ex 1. Objectives: Practice technical evacs through obstacles. Practice first aid stabilisation and packaging, with casualties provided by St [...]
Howth Coast Guard were tasked this afternoon at 17.45 at the request of Gardai to give them assistance in the recovery of a bag from the bottom of the cliffs at Balscadden. Two volunteers safely lead a Garda down a path to the bottom while the rest of the team assembled at the top ready [...]
Today, 6th August 2009, at 16.20 Howth Coast Guard were tasked to a missing male swimmer on Portmarnock Beach.
The swimmer’s family had reported him missing to the Beach Life Guards at Portmarnock. The lifeguards contacted the Coast Guard Marine Rescue Control Centre and twenty volunteers from the Howth Coast Guard Coastal Search Unit along with the [...]
At 17.40 today Howth CG received a call from MRCC Dublin saying that a person out on the cliffs had lost their dogs while walking. They had been lost earlier in the day but on searching for them the owner had only just found them half way down a steep cliff on a ledge about [...]
BALSCADDEN, HOWTH - At 1724 today, Howth Inshore Lifeboat and Howth Coast Guard volunteers were tasked to recover a body from the bottom of the rocks at Balscadden. It was seen by members of the public and appeared to be the result of an accident. Howth Lifeboat transferred the casualty to a stretcher while a [...]
RED ROCK, SUTTON - Last night Howth Coast Guard performed a 3 climber descent at Red Rock in Sutton, Dublin. The scenario entailed one climbers descent line becoming damaged for exercise only, and having to move onto another climbers line to acsend. After the initial descent and ascent, 3 more climbs were completed in pairs.
This [...]
