Date: 31/12/16 16:00
Incident: Report of KS in difficulty off Burrow Beach. KS self recovered to shore
Response: CG HW, CG R116, RNLI ILB
Incident: 82/16
Date: 31/12/16 16:00 Incident: Report of KS in difficulty off Burrow Beach. KS self recovered to shore Response: CG HW, CG R116, RNLI ILB Incident 01/17
Shortly before 1pm today the Irish Coast Guard received calls from the public advising waves were breaking over the East Pier in Howth endangering walkers. Two units from Howth Coast Guard attended are still on scene. We are advising the public not to walk down the Pier until well after High Tide, which happened at 1.15pm. This is first incident of the year and follows a busy year in which in the unit attended 82 incidents in 2016. Nationally the Coast Guard were involved in 2,500 incidents. Last night two persons unfamiliar with the area got their car got stuck in ditch down a narrow track near Howth Summit. The Coast Guard were contacted by Gardai this morning to ask if they could assist; a unit from the Coast Guard in Howth was tasked and recovered the car and the occupants back to the summit car park.
The two occupants had stayed with the car through the night and were relieved with the assistance. Note, although Coast Guard units are equipped for this, it is not something we normally respond to; in this case considering the duration of time spent in the car it was deemed appropriate. Incident: 81/16 Date: 30/12/16 Response: CG HW IRT. Location: Howth Summit Incident: 78/16
Date: 26/12/16 09:00 Incident: Heli Landing at Beaumont hospital. CG R118 inbound from Letterkenny. Prepare LZ and assist with transfer. Response: CG R118 (Sligo), CG HW IRT, NAS, DFB Location: Beaumont Woods. Incident: 79/16 Date: 28/12/16 16:00 Incident: Heli Landing at Beaumont hospital. CG R116 inbound from Cavan. Prepare LZ and assist with transfer. Response: CG R116 (Dublin), CG HW IRT, NAS, DFB Location: Beaumont Woods. On Tuesday at 16.45 Howth Coast Guard were tasked to check a report from a member of the public of a vessel off Portmarnock beach that may need assistance. Howth RNLI ILB was also tasked to the area.
Two members of the unit who were in the Portmarnock area went to the location quickly. When Howth ILB arrived on scene the crew spoke to a fishing boat near to the shore but reported it did not require any assistance. The Howth CG members on shore searched the beach but also didn't find any boat. The units on scene were stood down by Dublin MRCC after a thorough search with nothing to report. Considered call with good intent. Incident 77/16 With the festivities in full swing and when Storm Barbara moves on many people will take to the nation’s beaches and cliffs to take in the fresh air and clear the cobwebs. This can be a busy time of the year for Irish Coast Guard personnel from crews in the air to crews on the coast and not forgetting our control room staff taking in the 112/ 999 emergency calls. The information communicated in that emergency call is critical; we need to know what has happened and where; the “where” can be tricky. People with the best of intentions can give the location they started off from or are travelling to which could be 10km away from where the actual emergency is. Unlike travelling to a street address access to a cliff or beach tends to be a challenge. Arriving at the right location can save time for our Coast Guard Rescue Teams, time that could save someone’s life. To do this we’d like you to help us. Tell us your numbers.. not your favourite lottery ones but your GPS co-ordinates, this will give us your location and we can plan the best and quickest way to get to you. . From Smart Phones these numbers can be easily attained from apps of which they are lots of. Let’s just look at the standard ones that comes with both iPhone and Android. You’ll see two sets of numbers that give you your longitude and latitude, these are the ones we need. The default setting for Google maps gives you a different gps format (degrees and decimal minutes) than the iPhone Compass (degrees, minutes and seconds). Let’s leave it simple, tell us which phone app you’re using and we’ll work it out. Phone signal can drop in some coastal areas so be prepared for plan b, to get to the nearest house to phone for help. For iPhone users its quick. Open the Compass app and you have your GPS co-ordinates at the bottom (53° 21’ 44”, 6° 3’ 16”). For Android users the quickest way is to simply open google maps drop the red pin beside your location which should be showing on the map and the GPS co-ordinates eg (53.353353, -6.163957) will appear in a dialogue box.
Video: https://youtu.be/KiTkdj5_hDw On behalf of everyone in the Irish Coast Guard station in Howth we wish you all a very happy and safe Christmas. The Irish Coast Guard unit in Howth are advising the public to exercise caution near exposed coastal areas during the current stormy conditions which is causing very strong north and north easterly winds.
Today at 2pm three hours before high tide the Coast Guard unit was requested to assist on the East Pier in Howth. Members of the public were advised to avoid walking the pier as waves were crashing over the pier presenting the risk of washing someone off the pier. Members kept watch until 7pm this evening and are monitoring the storm's development. Incident 75/16 Incident: 73/16
Date: 1/11/16 Incident: Heli Landing at Beaumont hospital. Person who had fallen off a horse in north county Dublin. Response: CG R116, CG HW IRT, NAS, DFB Location: Beaumont Woods. Incident: 74/16 Date: 5/11/16 Incident: Body recovered by RNLI ALB. Condolences to deceased’s family and friends Response: CG HW Cliff Rescue Team (Full Team Call Out), CG R116, RNLI ALB Location: Off Howth Head Incident: 72/16 Date: 25/10/16 Time: 12.45am Response: CG Clogherhead, RNLI Clogherhead, CG R116, CG HW. Location: Clogherhead, Co Louth. Shortly before 1am this morning a full team page was activated. A cliff rescue team were required to assist at an incident in Clogherhead. The team were stood down on route and returned to base. Well deserved praise to Clogherhead Coast Guard and Clogherhead RNLI on the tasking in challenging conditions. This afternoon at 3.30pm the Irish Coast Guard operations centre received a call reporting a missing jet skier. The Coast Guard team in Howth, Coast Guard Rescue 116 Helicopter and the Howth RNLI lifeboats were immediately tasked.
Search teams combed the water and coastline. About 30 minutes later the Coast Guard Helicopter located the jet skier with his submerged craft North of Ireland's Eye. The Howth lifeboats brought the casualty back to shore to a waiting ambulance. The jet skier who was wearing a Life Jacket didn't have serious injuries. During the rescue a sighting of someone possibly in the water off Balscaden was reported. Rescue teams were again dispatched and after a search nothing was located. Finally as teams were wrapping up it was noted that waves were breaking on the East Pier in Howth with people out walking in danger of getting washed over by breaking waves. A Coast Guard team spoke to members of the public and advised them against walking down the pier until after the weather conditions passed, one person was assisted back to safety from beyond the breaking waves. Coast Guard personnel maintained a position on the pier until the high tide receded. Incidents 70/16, 71/16 The Irish Coast Guard emergency operations centre this morning, shortly before 11am, received a call about a kayaker off Howth. A concerned member of the public had noted that the kayaker was on the water with no Life Jacket and rang the Coast Guard on 999. The kayaker had proceeded around the back of Ireland’s eye off Howth and out of visibility from the caller on land. While the kayaker didn’t appear in difficulty there were concerned for their safety.
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Last Sunday while on exercise the Irish Coast Guard boat “Sean Dunne” from Howth station was tasked by the Coast Guard operations centre to assist a craft near Dun Laoghaire harbour. The boat was towed into Dun Laoghaire and a crew member from the casualty vessel brought aboard the Coast Guard boat. Incident 53/16 |