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The Howth Coast Guard boat was in action today at the Greystones Festival. As part of the proceedings Greystones CG unit hosted a search and rescue display. Taking part were Wicklow lifeboat, Wicklow Civil Defence boat, Coast Guard Rescue Helicopter 116 and of course Howth CG boat.
Howth provided safety boat cover during the rescue senarios.
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 [...]
Photos from the Howth Festival SAR Demo are available online.
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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 [...]
The Howth Coast Guard boat was out on lifejacket compliance monitoring both days of the weekend with slightly worse compliance on Sunday than Saturday. The boat crew met up with Skerries RNLI Atlantic 75 off Portrane and the Irish Coast Guard Helicopter ‘MES’ off the Bailey Lighthouse.
The Howth crew are now gearing up for the [...]
The Howth Coast Guard voluntary unit carried out Life Jacket compliance monitoring in the Dublin Bay area yesterday. Good results were found across the board with all personnel on sailing vessels under 7m wearing jackets, although a minority of small pleasure craft were not.
During lunch the Howth Delta RIB entered Dublin Port to view the [...]
Howth CG boat ‘Grainne‘ was out on Lifejacket compliance monitoring patrol today. Weather conditions were good and Grainne visited Dun Laoghaire harbour and Dublin Bay. Lifejackets were worn on all vessels which required them except one. The skipper of the non compliant vessel was informed of the regulations and his obligations under the Merchant Shipping(Pleasure [...]
Howth CG boat launched today at 12.00 to attend the blessing of the boats at Clontarf Yacht Club. The Unit’s 4×4 and van were in attendance on shore. The YC also treated some local special needs kids to trips out in the yachts which they enjoyed immensely in spite of the ‘damp’ conditions. The CG [...]
Last night the Howth Coast Guard boat crew did a training exercise with Mike Echo Sierra (Known as Rescue 116 on call-out). The crew met the helicopter in Howth sound before proceeding to open waters behind Ireland’s Eye. Behind the Island a crew member was dropped into the water and left drift while the boat [...]
The boat crew have been out this busy bank holiday weekend in the Howth, Malahide and Dublin Bay area. With a large on-the-water boat show over at Malahide Marina there were plenty of boats afloat.
While there are still cases where the odd adult isn’t wearing the required floatation device, nearly 100% of children are and [...]
