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Busy summer for Swilly Lifeboat
28.09.10
LOUGH Swilly Lifeboat
had a busy summer with 14 launches for the three
months from June to August.
The figures also show that the Swilly crew had a
total of 24 launches for the year to the end of
August.
Operations manager, Liam Magee, said: ‘It was a busy
summer for the station and as the statistics for the
country as a whole indicate, the Lough Swilly
Lifeboat attended to three different incidents in
the one day in June.’
RNLI lifeboats nationally were requested to launch
450 times during June, July and August. On average
Irish, lifeboats launched five times a day during
the busy summer season.
The busiest station in Ireland was Enniskillen in Co
Fermanagh with 29 launches followed by Baltimore in
West Cork, with 23 callouts. |
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The figures come on
the back of a significant investment by the charity
in the Irish lifeboat fleet. New inshore lifeboats
have been put on service in Dun Laoghaire, Kilrush
in Clare and Fenit in Kerry. These new lifeboats are
fast, efficient and technically equipped to reach
casualties faster and to provide increased cover
around the coast.
RNLI national operations director, Michael Vlasto,
added: ‘The summer is always busy as more and more
people opt to relax at the coast. |
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RNLI's B-Class Atlantic 85 boat in
action on Lough Swilly. |
The figures show that
our volunteers are called on much more during this
time and the fact they respond every time the pager
goes off shows just how committed they are to saving
lives at sea.’
The RNLI offers free all-year-round safety advice
for sea users and beach visitors at
www.rnli.ie . |
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