FISHERIES BOARD ISSUES WARNING TO GALWAY BOATOWNERS

Date Published: 17-Jul-2008

The Western Regional Fisheries Board is appealling to all anglers and boat users in Galway to ensure that bouyancy tanks in boats are airtight.The warning comes after a rescue operation took place on Tuesday on the River Corrib.Fisheries Officer, Seán Francis, launched a rigid inflatable lifeboat in the river near Menlo when a call came in that a boat had capsized.The boat was half submerged with a man clinging to the hull, when the Fisheries Officer arrived there.The boat owner had been in the water for over an hour and his lifejacket had not inflated properly.The man was successfully brought ashore by the Fisheries Officer and the Coastguard Helicopter was called off.