Skerries Coast Guard were tasked at 21:30 this evening by the Irish Coast Guard’s rescue coordination centre (MRCC) to investigate a flare sighting. Several members of the public had contacted the Coast Guard and reported sighting distress flares in the Skerries area.
The Skerries Coast Guard team immediately conducted a coastal search, quickly establishing no vessals in the area were in distress and traced the deployment site of the flares to an area inland. A search of the area was made with the assistance of local Gardai, and a number of live distress flares were recovered.
Read the front page article on this incident from the Fingal Independent here
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Incident #10 of 2008.
