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rescue at glens 3/1/15
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 8:57 am
by Andy
anyone know who needed the guards, water rescue, mountain rescue and rescue 115 (the heli) out at the glens yesterday evening?
edit: hope they are ok!
Re: rescue at glens 3/1/15
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:14 am
by Cathal
No idea, most of our group were en route back from Kerry. Hadn't heard of an incident (yet)..
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Re: rescue at glens 3/1/15
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 1:33 pm
by GavinSheehan
Definitely wasn't one of ours anyway! Not sure who it was but I know some of the Kilkenny Club were there yesterday and possibly Lacken. Seems like a very odd one though. If he only had a dislocated shoulder, it couldn't have taken over 3 hours to get him out. Must have been more than that.
Re: rescue at glens 3/1/15
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:35 pm
by Cathal
According to secondhand information relayed from Mountain Rescue, it was a bit of an overblown reaction. Dislocated shoulder on river right.
Apparently the call went to the Gardai that then called *everyone*. Even Kilalloe coastguard apparently!
Re: rescue at glens 3/1/15
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 5:03 pm
by GavinSheehan
I still cant understand how it took them so long to get him out of there.
Re: rescue at glens 3/1/15
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:06 pm
by PaulAustin
Kayaker rescued from gower aswell the same day.
Re: rescue at glens 3/1/15
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 9:33 pm
by Cathal
Andy Mullins was the kayaker at Gower, that was happily surfing away, when the coastguard arrived up and asked "are you okay ", answers "yep, fine" and goes away again. That was the extent of the supposed rescue!
Unless I'm conflating two seperate Gower scenarios.
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Re: rescue at glens 3/1/15
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 9:37 pm
by JackPhelan
Cathal wrote:Andy Mullins was the kayaker at Gower, that was happily surfing away, when the coastguard arrived up and asked "are you okay ", answers "yep, fine" and goes away again. That was the extent of the supposed rescue!
Unless I'm conflating two seperate Gower scenarios.
That happened to him 2 weeks ago according to Morgan O'Sullivan, could have happened again though
Re: rescue at glens 3/1/15
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 12:03 am
by Cathal
Yep, fire brigade 2 weeks ago, and coastguard yesterday.
Re: rescue at glens 3/1/15
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 9:18 pm
by Andy
Yeah that was me at gower. I think one of the locals gets concerned when you are surfing the wave for too long on your own. I'd been on the wave for 20 mins plus both times. Maybe in future if you are there on my own cut the surfs a bit shorter?
The kayaker on the glens was from mayo apparently. Glens virgin. With two paddlers that had run the river before. Ended up river left just after mikeys. Rather than pulling him across the river right, to the footpath they escalated it to this:
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/ ... k.facebook
pickling ridiculous.
Re: rescue at glens 3/1/15
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:28 am
by Conor_B
For what could conceivable have taken 2 or 3 experienced paddlers 15 to 20 mins max. to do?
