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LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Via mountaintraining.ie we’ve been alerted to the man who fell from 6m and somersaulted mid-air out of the fall to land on all-fours rather than his head! It was said his training as a ballet dancer helped him avoid serious head injuries! Coastguards said the man[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Over the weekend we tried to find out a little bit about our readers. It proved a great experiment - we’ve a number of serious adventurers hi Alan, Neil, Rick, Shane, Mariano & Richard. We’ve got Sunday Times journalists, Adventure Racers, marathon kay[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - This shocking video shot from a helicopter shows a very good effort by volunteer rescue workers in the UK Coast Guard saving a female suicide jumper. 2 members of the UK Coast Guard approach the suicide jumper from behind, and as she backs out for a brief moment one ma[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - UK cliff teams won’t respond to call-outs until their insurance is verified. BBC News report: Volunteer coastguard teams around the UK have withdrawn from responding to call-outs following a row over compensation for injuries. The volunteers - usually on permanen[...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - We organised a surprise exercise for the Howth Coast Guard unit on Saturday. Read about it on their blog. Check out my photos of it on Flickr. [...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - Howth Coast Guard are reporting Jermaine Jackson of Big Brother & Jackson 5 fame appeared at the summit carpark with the rescue team who had just returned from a full morning search on Howth Head for a missing woman from Donaghmede, Dublin. Jermaine donned an Irish Co[...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - RTE News are reporting of a fatal 600ft fall by two members of the public. Their bodies were recovered at 4pm by the Shannon based Sikorsky and Doolin Coastguard. The bodies of a woman and a young boy have been recovered from the sea at the Cliffs of Moher in Co Clare. The[...] Read More »

I’m just in the door… The team were paged at 1510hrs today to assist a woman on ‘Jamesons Beach’ on Howth Head. Arriving with a very quick response, members of the Coast Guard team discovered the woman had fallen 5-6m over the cliff edge off the steep steps[...] Read More »