Coastguard Teams in Mud & Water Rescue Training in Strangford Lough
1st March 2021
Portaferry and Bangor Coastguard Rescue Teams during Strangford Lough Mud and Water rescue training
Credit: Portaferry Coastguard Rescue Team
Portaferry Coastguard Rescue team was joined by the Bangor team for joint mud and water rescue training in Strangford Lough on Sunday, 28th February.
The Dorn at Ardkeen was the location for the mud training. The word Dorn, from the Gaelic word for narrow channel, refers to the channel which connects several sheltered bays to the Lough near Ardkeen on the eastern side of the Lough.
Cook Street Quay in Portaferry town was used for the water rescue training.
The development will comprise of the following:
A Swift Water Rescue Training (SWRT) Centre. This will be based around a floodable street with a mock rescue village. It will be used by Dublin Fire Brigade, other emergency services and certain local authority staff. It is essential, given the increase in severe weather flooding events that local authority and other emergency service staff can train for these events in controlled conditions with no water quality issues. The SWRT Centre is based on a recently commissioned ‘
state of the art’ facility developed at the New York State’s Preparedness Training Centre in Utica, New York.