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Singlehander Rescued in Western Pacific Ocean By Sandy Parks · On January 8, 2021
(ABC – Aus) – Earlier this week a singlehander was rescued after being blown off his 32-foot boat in heavy seas. The man was wearing a life jacket with a Personal Locator Beacon which alerted the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. The sailor was in the Arafura Sea which is between the north coast of Australia and the south coast of New Guinea. Using aircraft the authorities were able to locate the man and direct a rescue vessel to him, eight hours after being thrown overboard. Read More
In an end of year commentary, the Coast Guard has highlighted, that despite the impact of Covid-19, 2020 has proven to be a relatively busy year.
Overall, the Coast Guard coordinated 2643 incidents in comparison with 2490 incidents in 2019. Activity over February, March and April was the lowest recorded for each of those months over recent years but noticeably picked up in May with August and September proving to be exceptionally busy.
464 incidents were recorded in August in comparison with 369 for August of 2019 and 307 incidents recorded in September with a corresponding figure of 239 in in 2019.
Coast Guard Director Eugene Clonan said that the key challenge this year was to ensure the 24/7 delivery of Coast Guard SAR services, as coordinated by the three Rescue Coordination Centres in Malin, Valentia and MRCC Dublin and responses delivered primarily by Coast Guard’s own volunteer sector, its contracted Helicopter service, RNLI and Community Inshore Rescue services.
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