April 2011

Sea Safety Open Day in Greencastle

The first annual sea safety promotion day by the Irish Coastguard and the RNLI is to take place in Greencastle on Sunday 1st May. All emergency services involved in sea safety will be in attendance at the Greencastle Coastguard Unit from 2.00pm to 6.00pm to meet everyone involved in commercial, fishing or leisure marine areas and to offer advice on safety at sea or just to have a casual chat on the services they provide.

The coastguard themselves will be holding an open house at their Greencastle station to show their rescue equipment and the RNLI will have its safety road show wagon in attendance. They will offer a free life jacket/PFD check to anyone who brings their equipment along which is an ideal opportunity for leisure boaters and fishermen to have their life jackets checked before the boating season starts.

Also in attendance will be the Gardai who will explain the emergency callout systems used in the event of an incident involving risk to life on the water.

There will also be a rocket launch by the Inishowen Maritime Museum at 3.00pm and a visit and rescue exercise by the RNLI lifeboat and the new Sikorsky helicopter from Sligo. The event will also coincide with the launch of a new exhibition by the Museum covering the history of Inishowen seamen in World War I.

The exhibition contains photographs and service records of over 170 Inishowen seamen who served at sea in the 1914 to 1920's period.

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