Lough Swilly RNLI volunteers were in action yesterday after a jet skier broke down off Inch Island.<\/p>\n
The inshore lifeboat, Davdot, was launched at 5.55pm on Monday, at the request of Malin Head Coast Guard following reports that a jet ski with one person on board in difficulty near Inch Island.<\/p>\n
The warm weather had brought sunshine and a gentle breeze to the area, while crews were met with choppy seas as they made their way to the scene, 3.2 nautical miles south west of the Buncrana lifeboat station.<\/p>\n
When the lifeboat arrived, the jet ski\u2019s engine had been restarted with the help of another jet skier, but it had minimal power and was only making slow progress.<\/p>\n
The volunteer crew stayed alongside the jet skier until all parties were safely ashore at Inch Pier.<\/p>\n
Speaking after the incident, Coxswain Eamonn Mahon urged people heading out on the water during this good spell to follow basic safety advice.<\/p>\n
He said: “Always carry a means of calling for help when going afloat and stay with your craft in an emergency, it will keep you afloat and easy to locate. Make sure you are also wearing suitable clothing for the forecasted conditions. Should you get in trouble, call 999 or 112 and ask for the Coast Guard.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lough Swilly RNLI volunteers were in action yesterday after a jet skier broke down off Inch Island. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-467936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}