This morning, the Skerries Coast Guard team conducted a coastal rescue exercise near Loughshinny harbour, 5 miles South of Skerries. This centered on the scenario of the Skerries team tasked to search for a person who had failed to return home from a planned walk of the area.
After a briefing on scene, two search teams were dispatched to search both the pier and the beach area. As the search progressed southwards, the teams successfully located the casualty. The exercise then focused on the team assessing the casualty’s injuries and administering first aid, while awaiting the arrival of additional resources.
For this scenario, the teams were presented with the scenario of the casualty having fallen from the cliff top to the beach below. While the casualty was conscious with minor fractures, their suspected spinal injuries required full spinal immobilisation and evacuation to be effected.
The exercise was repeated, with the casualty having suffered varying degrees of injuries.