Safety

Not entirely unrelated and an excellent idea...

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A useful idea to pass on to your family and friends. The concept of "ICE" is catching up quickly. It is simple, yet an important method of contact during emergency situations.

As mobile phones are carried by majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person(s) who should be contacted at during emergency as "ICE " (In Case of Emergency).

The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when they went to the scenes of accidents, there were always mobile phones with patients, BUT they didn't know which numbers to call. He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognised name for this purpose.

Following a disaster in London, the East Anglican Ambulance Service launched a national "In case of Emergency (ICE)" campaign.

In an emergency situation, Emergency Services personnel and hospital staff would then be able to quickly contact your next of kin, by simply dialling the number stored as "ICE".

Please forward this. It won't take too many "forwards" before everybody will know about this. It really could save your life, or put a loved one's
mind at rest. For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc.

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Feel free to virus email this out there...

Just to clear something up I'm not against lifejackets and agree they should be worn and do wear them on normal rock marks. I just don't wear them in Dunlickey as there is a zero chance of being swept in as its 100 foot up and if you trip and fall my thinking would be you'd be dead anyway. Maybe I'm wrong.

Donagh

Agreed, the fall will kill you in most cliff situations... or as the old joke goes, the impact not the fall...

however in situations where someone is injured / knocked unconscious but not critically injured, the human body will float head down in the water, and as such they will die from drowning in a situation where a full life jacket would have held them head up so even on a cliff, wear a life jacket.

Re wearing a life-jacket, cannot see the argument against wearing it if you have one - almost tumbled off the end of Dun Laoighaire Pier at 2am one morning, not another soul around, bet I would have been glad of a life jacket then given all of the clothes I had on to combat the cold - I could have drowned, swimmer or not.

As for the national/non-national, don't see the point in targeting any specific nationality, evryone deserves to be informed re the danger.

Good point earlier re the tackle shops, on a number of occasions local tackle dealers have warned me of the dangers of fishing specific marks.

Good point earlier re the tackle shops, on a number of occasions local tackle dealers have warned me of the dangers of fishing specific marks.

Most tackle shops in the area would warn about the dangers involved in fishing the blue pool and most of the locals would do the same but alot of these guys don't have a bare word of English. I'm not against warning the native population against fishing its just these guys need to be specialy informed due to this. They need to be informed through their own language and newspaper mediums.

Donagh

Maybe one for the web development section but I'll post it here, too.

It seems there is a hack at http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/1113

which creates a small box below the phpBB copyright statement that allows your users to translate the boards (and all links they click on from the translated page) into many languages using Altavista.com's language translation service. It also includes optional code to keep your page out of the Altavista frame.

Might be worth a try for anyone who hasn't english as a first language?

1) Warning Signage displayed in English (not Irish) and other EU languages.
2) Lifejacket - (there are some really effective & comfortable types available
3) Bring a Mobile phone
4) Try to avoid fishing alone
5) Tell someone where you are going
6) Know the tides
7) Don't take any unnecessary risks.

Kieran's post about "ICE" seems like a good idea. Might just try that. What I always carry when fishing is something waterproof with my ID on it (drivers licence in a ziplock bag is a good one) in an inside pocket so if the worst comes to the worst I'd be reasonably easily identified.

As far as taking a tumble off the rocks, or indeed of a boat goes, a lifejacket is a good help. Wherever possible, I do prefer my flotation suit. Anyone who has spent a few minutes in the water this time of year onwards will tell you that the cold hits pretty quickly. Especially for anyone fishing alone, where you might have to wait a while in the water before you're missed, the flotation suit is your best chance, IMHO.

Another point about life jackets is that you never know if they will work on the day - they may fail to inflate or be holed (another advantage of the flotation suit) - how often do we actually test them? I think you're supposed to test them annually. I got two refill cannisters for mine off eBay for about 15 quid a while back. I'll be testing mine at the start of next season...

Looks like safety issues have resulted in the banning of shore fishing at these locations.. from today's Irish Independent....

New signs to go up after drownings

INTERNATIONALLY recognisable signs are to be put up at three locations in west Clare in response to two drownings of non-nationals in the space of seven days.

Clare Co Council's water safety officer, Liam Griffin, confirmed yesterday the signs will be posted at Blue Pool in Doonbeg, as well as in two locations in Kilkee, by the weekend. Polish man Peter Bedzlowitz, a father of four, drowned at Tullig Point near Cross in Kilkee last Sunday week, while Latvian Olegs Artenjevs, a father of one, drowned while fishing at Blue Pool, Doonbeg, last Sunday.

The pictorial signs will show a man falling into the sea as a result of backwash dragging him in, and the second will show that shore-fishing is not allowed at the three locations.

The two places in Kilkee are Newfoundout (diving boards on west end) and Blackrock (under the Golf Club on the east end.)

who is going to enforce the rules mentioned above? :?

Same article is detailed within the Irish Times today.

This is a positive and a visible step in the right direction that will help educate both ' non national' & national anglers on the hazards of fishing the Irish coastline.
I sincerely hope that similar multilingual signage are now erected & targeted for a similar audience - informing anglers of the Irish angling Laws & Regulations .This is long overdue and is badly needed for all angling marks ( Sea & inshore).



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