Team Geared Up

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Apologies to everyone who sent in all the excellent emails, tip-offs, press releases and links over the last 2 weeks. I’ve been offline (adventuring - so I’ve an excuse!) and missed posting them. Rather than post lots of old news - I thought I’d do a r[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Sorry about the cheesy title! Brian mailed me this morning to say their new site at www.doolincoastguard.com had gone live. The Doolin Unit of the Irish Coast Guard is located in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland. All volunteers, on-call 24/7/365. If you’[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The U.S. Coast Guard announced during a ceremony today in Grand Haven, Mich., for its 217th birthday that 1,109,310 lives have been saved since its establishment in 1790. Thanks to Irish Coast Guard member for news-tip. Top ten rescue videos is available here -Robin- [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - I’m back in Dublin this weekend, flying back to London at 4.30am. Here’s some tidbits for Monday morning. Michael Reardon has still not been found. Navy are diving in the bay tomorrow to check the seabed if conditions allow. A girl was pulled from the [...] Read More »