Yesterday evening after a visit from An Taoiseach, Howth CG unit were out on the cliffs for a rescue exercise with our full-time Training Officers from Coast Guard Head Quarters. The unit performed a casuality recovery exercise in the Baily lighthouse area and were then assessed on their performance.
The senario was a casualty cut off by the tide at [...]
This morning the team were on exercise and a full cliff stretcher recovery was performed. Two climbers initially descended to assess the ‘casualty’ and then when the condition was stabilised a stretcher recovery was completed. Also two new cliff rescue climbers started their high cliff training today. Always a little daunting when going from gentle [...]
On Wednesday evening Howth CG boat ‘Grainne’ was out working with Helicopter Mike Echo Sierra(Rescue 116). Grainne was asked to assist R116 with winching procedures. Out past Ireland’s Eye a crew member from Grainne was put in the water and was winched out up to the helicopter and then the winchman then landed in the [...]
Last night Howth CG were out cliff training with the recent new recruits at the Baily lighthouse. Cliff top working was concentrated on with stake tying and dog tying and operation the major parts along with the basic CG knots. All volunteers have to master cliff top operations before they can advance onto becoming rescue [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday night of this week saw the team train in vertical rescue, on the horizontal! The team gathered with vehicles and cliff rescue equipment on the grass area of the east pier. It is important to train in all aspects of cliff rescue regularly as the more irregular unused methods need as much attention as [...]
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18 members of Howth CG Unit were involved in a major SAR incident exercise last weekend. The exercise involved Fire, Rescue, Ambulance and Water units from the Civil Defence alongside the Coast Guard units from Howth and Skerries. Up to 150 rescue personnel were involved searching for about 50 casualties. The Civil Defence had set [...]
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 [...]
Two Howth climbers last night
Howth & Skerries Coast Guard Units plus the Civil Defence, Fire Service and Dublin Coast Guard helicopter will hold a mini SAR Demo in Donabate/Portrane on Sunday 7th May at 2pm. It will involve a simulated plane crash, chemicals on beach, buildings on fire, recovery operation and cliff rescue.
Last night [...]
