AN €8m investment in boats, equipment, training and the re-development of the Baltimore Lifeboat Station has meant that the service is able to respond in super quick time.
‘The investment is very significant,’ Kieran Cotter, the coxswain of Baltimore Lifeboat told The Southern Star. ‘It means we have an extremely fast response time and that our search equipment is excellent.’
‘Resources equals results,’ he added. ‘Unfortunately, on Tuesday night it just didn’t work out.’
Baltimore, like every coastal community, has known its share of tragedies, but for the crew of Baltimore RNLI, who cover from Mizen to Galley Head, the numbers are frightening….
Southern Star 06/07/2015 Read the article ”Safety has to be paramount’ says coxswain Kieran’
