Team Geared Up

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 »

Two Irish marine rescues this afternoon: RTE Report: Gardaí and rescue services are attempting to recover the body of a man found on rocks at the sea below the Cliffs of Moher. The Doolin Coastal Cliff rescue team along with the Shannon based rescue helicopter are working in the area to recover t[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Thanks to Bren at MountainTraining.ie for sharing this with TGU by email. He’s posted it himself and passed on permission. Our sympathy goes out to all family & friends. Matt Samet, Editor of Climbing magazine, UKClimbing.com’s USA news associate sent [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - RTE News are reporting one of the worlds top free solo climbers has fallen off a cliff face 21m into the sea off Valencia Island in Kerry. Hopes look very unlikely he’ll be alive as he fell yesterday. All we know: From United States He is understood to be o[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The Cork Coastline. Thanks to reader Diverman for the submission! (don’t get the joke?) In other news - a body has been pulled from the sea in Clare but circumstances or if they are alive or dead is unconfirmed. [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The RNLI emailed me today to give notice of their eBay auctions. Apart from winning station tours of stations around the country, you can bid & win for 2 places to become ‘Crew For A Day’ at their award-winning Lifeboat College in Poole, Dorset, on 24 A[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - We got a message that a yacht has been spotted by an Irish Air corps plane drifting 68 miles off the west coast of Ireland with no mast and had previously done a few capsizes. The yacht had left the West Indies over 2 weeks ago ad had lost all radio contact (Did t[...] Read More »

6 Hikers, 2 Divers, 1 Yachtmans Dead. DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - I have just returned from camping on a wind battered Aran Islands out in the Atlantic and I read Aisling’s Wicklow Round got called off. Maybe just as well too, RTE News are reporting that 23 have been killed in the same[...] Read More »