Skerries Coast Guard » EPIRB http://www.skerriescoastguard.com A voluntary coastal rescue unit of the Irish Coast Guard Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:01:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 EPIRB distress alert – 25th January 2010 http://www.skerriescoastguard.com/2010/01/25/epirb-distress-alert-25th-january-2010/ http://www.skerriescoastguard.com/2010/01/25/epirb-distress-alert-25th-january-2010/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:11:26 +0000 admin http://www.skerriescoastguard.com/?p=742 At 15:00 today, the volunteers of Skerries Coast Guard were paged to invesitgate an EPIRB distress alert near Skerries harbour. The Coast Guard’s marine rescue coordination centre (MRCC) had recieved the distress alert from the radio beacon, with the area near Skerries harbour given as the indicated position. The volunteers arrived at the harbour and located the EPIRB on board the vessal. It was evident that the distress alert was a false alarm. No further aciton was required and the Skerries Coast Guard team were stood down.

Incident #3 of 2010

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