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Sea Safety

People go afloat for leisure for all sorts of reasons – relaxation, adrenaline, fun. Whatever the reason, an incident at sea can ruin what would otherwise be a good day. For over ten years, the RNLI has offered free and friendly advice to leisure boat owners, which concentrated on safety equipment, what to carry and how to use it. We have various ways of doing this.

Peter BullickYour local point of contact:
Peter Bullick is the appointed Lifeboat Sea Safety officer (LSSO) at Donaghadee Lifeboat Station and can be contacted either through the Station, or on  07802537371 Peter will be happy to help with any of your queries about safety on the water in any one or more of the following ways.

A quick informal chat
If you want to talk about any aspect of sea safety, or have any queries or want to know more about any particular issue or item of safety equipment, just call us and we’ll be happy to help.

Sea Check – a bit more formal. If you want us to have a look at your kit on the boat, then this is the ideal thing for you. This free friendly and confidential service offers audit of you safety equipment. Our team use a form to keep them on track, as it were, but the items listed ion the form are items for discussion, it’s not just a box ticking exercise. The advice given includes what should be carried for particular uses and areas, where and how equipment should be stowed and how to operate and maintain the equipment.

Lifejacket presentations and clinics. Wearing a lifejacket or buoyancy aid, generically known as Personal Flotation Devices (PFDs), saves lives. That simple fact has been proven over the years and RNLI statistics and experience backs this up. On average around the coasts of Ireland and the UK it takes a half an hour for the lifeboat to reach a casualty. Wearing a PFD will buy that time, and more. The presentation offered by the RNLI’s trained lifejacket presenters highlight the importance of wearing the PFD. In addition to the presentation, we offer a lifejacket clinic, where you can bring you lifejackets along and we will show you how to look after them, how to fit them properly and what to look out for.

RNLI Sea Safety Roadshow. The RNLI operates three roadshows, during the summer months, one of which covers Ireland and Scotland. The Roadshow is equipped to offer lifejacket clinics and offer general sea safety advice to anyone who asks. The Roadshow will be visiting Donaghadee during Lifeboat Week in August.

To contact  the sea safety team either contact your local LSSO, Peter Bullick on 07802537371 or by ringing 0800 3280600 or by logging on to www.rnli.ork.uk/seasafety